Companionship

Companionship is the state of having or being a companion, or having an association or a fellowship with another.

A

 * Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.
 * Dante Alighieri, Inferno, XXII. 13. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124-25.

C

 * Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
 * Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-1615), Volume III, Part II, Chapter XXIII.


 * Pares autem vetere proverbio, cum paribus facillime congregantur.
 * Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
 * Cicero, Cato Major De Senectute, III. 7. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124-25.


 * We are in the same boat.
 * Pope Clement I, to the Church of Corinth. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124-25.

D

 * I couldn't advise others to try such a long distance marriage, but for us it works perfectly. We are three thousand miles apart, it is true, but the big thing is that we each have our careers without interference from the other. My husband can't leave his practice and I can't leave Hollywood, but neither of us has any thought of giving up either the career or each other. Some day we shall again live in our 'honeymoon' apartment - but in the meantime, for us, this is the best possible way.
 * Irene Dunne The Girl Nobody Knows; New Movie Magazine, Reginald Taviner (October 1932).


 * Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
 * It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.
 * Quoted by Dominicus de Gravina, Chron. de Rebus, in Apul. Gest. Thomas à Kempis, De Valle Siliorum, Chapter 16. Dionysius Cato. Spinoza, Ethics, IV. 57 ("Alorum" for "doloris." Thucydides, VII. 75.

F

 * Better your room than your company.
 * Simon Forman, Marriage of Wit and Wisdom (c. 1570).

H

 * Bishop Jeremy Taylor is clear, that men will find it impossible to do anything greatly good, unless they cut off all superfluous company and visits.
 * George Horne Olla Podrida, No. 9.

K

 * Do not keep company with young people and strangers. Do not fawn upon the rich, and do not be fond of mingling with the great. Associate with the humble and the simple, with the devout and virtuous, and with them speak of edifying things.
 * Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, Book 1, Chapter 8


 * It takes two for a kiss Only one for a sigh, Twain by twain we marry  One by one we die.
 * Frederick L. Knowles, Grief and Joy. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124-25.


 * Joy is a partnership, Grief weeps alone, Many guests had Cana;  Gethsemane but one.
 * Frederick L. Knowles, Grief and Joy. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124-25.

L

 * The First Truth is an assertion that all manifested life is sorrow, unless man knows how to live it... the Cause of Sorrow is always desire. If a man has no desires, if he is not striving for place or power or wealth, then he is equally tranquil whether the wealth or position comes or whether it goes. He remains unruffled and serene.... Being human, he will of course wish for this or that, but always mildly and gently, so that he does not allow himself to be disturbed... How often, for example, a young man desires affection from someone who cannot give it to him, who has it not to give! From such a desire as that comes often a great deal of sadness, jealousy and much other ill-feeling. You will say that such a desire is natural; undoubtedly it is, and affection which is returned is a great source of happiness. Yet if it cannot be returned, a man should have the strength to accept the situation, and not allow sorrow to be caused by the unsatisfied desire.
 * C.W. Leadbeater, (Speaking about the Four Noble Truths in The Masters and the Path, (1925)

M

 * It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.
 * Christopher Marlowe, Faustus. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124-25.

P

 * Two i's company, three i's trumpery.
 * Mrs. Parr, Adam and Eve, IX. 124. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124-25.


 * On se forme l’esprit et le sentiment par les conversations. On se gâte l’esprit et le sentiment par les conversations. Ainsi les bonnes ou les mauvaises le forment ou le gâtent. Il importe donc de tout de les savoir choisir pour se le former et ne le point gâter; et on ne peut faire ce choix, si on ne l’a déjà formé et point gâté. Ainsi cela fait un cercle, d’où sont bienheureux ceux qui sortent.
 * Spirit and sentiment are formed by conversation. Spirit and sentiment are ruined by conversation. … It is, then, all-important to know how to choose our society in order to form rather than ruin them; and one cannot make this choice unless one has already formed them and not ruined them. Thus a circle is formed, and those are fortunate who escape it.
 * Blaise Pascal, Pensées, #6


 * The right hands of fellowship.
 * Paul of Tarsus, Galatians, II. 9.i n Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124-25.


 * It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
 * Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living, 1938-10-13


 * How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?
 * Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living, 1945-11-28

S

 * The same thing has been said by all whom Prometheus has formed out of better clay. What pleasure could they find in the company of people with whom their only common ground is just what is lowest and least noble in their own nature—the part of them that is commonplace, trivial and vulgar? What do they want with people who cannot rise to a higher level, and for whom nothing remains but to drag others down to theirs?
 * Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims, T. B. Saunders, trans., § 9


 * Male voli solatii genus est turbu miserorum.
 * A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
 * Seneca the Younger, Consol. ad Marc.', 12, 5. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations'' (1922), p. 124-25.


 * Ante, inquit, circumspiciendum est, cum quibos edas et bibas, quam quid edas et bibas.
 * [Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
 * Seneca the Younger, Epistles, XIX. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124-25.


 * Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.
 * No possession is gratifying without a companion.
 * Seneca the Younger, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, VI. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124-25.


 * How is it less or worse That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war?
 * William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (c. 1607-08), Act III, scene 2, line 49.


 * It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
 * Solomon, Proverbs 21:19, King James Version


 * No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race,  And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done.
 * Algernon Charles Swinburne, Songs Before Sunrise. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124-25.


 * Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.
 * A pleasant companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
 * Syrus, Maxims. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124-25.

T

 * Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
 * Talmud, Aboth, IV. 20. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124-25.