#companion

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

— Henry David Thoreau

#company #privacy #solitude #solitude

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties. ↗

— Gary Busey

#balloons #blowing #companion #dark #dark side

Patience is the companion of wisdom. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#companion #patience

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. ↗

— Paul Valery

#companion #created #feel #finding #gave

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough ↗

— Walt Whitman

#contentment #family #family

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#brought #card #catalog #companion #house

'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#companion #grownup #life

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#happiness #hopes #ignorance #invaluable #life

Never make a companion equal to a brother. ↗

— Hesiod

#companion #equal #make #never

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#companionship #lonely #people #stoop