#companions

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. ↗

— Pierre Charron

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Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#basket #companions #foam #gallop #gathered

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#feet #fewer #four #never #our

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. ↗

— M. F. K. Fisher

#aches #ageless #aspirin #cheese #companions

Beauty and folly are old companions. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#companions #folly #old

Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#family #family

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#capital #companions #fellows #grown #mates

I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers. ↗

— Niki Lauda

#costs #coworkers #employ #flight #i

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#companions #flight #great men #heights #kept