#companion

People always joke that "dog" spells "god" backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test. ↗

— Linda Blair

#backwards #coming #companions #consider #dog

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test. ↗

— Linda Blair

#front #here #how #right #test

There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others. ↗

— Linda Blair

#companion #countless #find #going #golden

When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my wife will have to give up whatever she's doing at that moment to tend to my needs. And, in the same way, I would tend to hers. That's not such an easy thing to do. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#doing #easy #easy thing #give #hers

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#becomes #companion #delightful #doubtful #flatterer

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

#appreciation #companionship #does #feels #fundamental

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#been #companion #dinner #done #go

Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#breasts #companion #content #enjoyment #external

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#companionable #found #i #never #solitude

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#companions #corrupted #liable