#companions

Beauty and folly are old companions. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#companions #folly #old

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think. ↗

— Denis Thatcher

#companionship #course #happy #happy life #i

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#companions #exception #greatest #himself #home

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#companionship #first #first time #love #marry

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. ↗

— Walter Scott

#alone #companions #doubly #feel #gone

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#change #companions #misery #nothing #substantially

One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being... ↗

— Mary Shelley

#life #loneliness #love #relationships #romance

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions. ↗

— John Green

#books #companionship #dftba #friends #inspiration

I want a marriage of companions—one of shared lives and shared poems,' he murmured. 'If we were husband and wife, we would collect books, read, and drink tea together. As I told you before, I'd want you for what's in here.' Again he pointed to my heart, but I felt it in a place far lower in my body. ↗

— Lisa See

#love #poetry #love

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing. ↗

— George Woodcock

#english #even #knighthood #orders #phraseology