Companionship Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

20 Companionship Quotes
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“And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Galatians (ch. II, v. 9)
“Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (vol. III, pt. II, ch. XXIII), quoted in
“Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. [Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio, cum paribus facillime congregantur.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes
Source: Cato Major De Senectute (III, 7)
“We are in the same boat.”
Pope Clement I (Clemens Romanus) Quotes
Source: To the Church of Corinth
“Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.”
Dante ("Dante Alighieri") Quotes
Source: Inferno (XXII, 13)
“Better your room than your company.”
Simon Forman Quotes
Source: Marriage of Wit and Wisdom
“It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe. [Lat., Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.]”
Simon Forman Quotes
Source: Marriage of Wit and Wisdom
“It takes two for a kiss Only one for a sigh, Twain by twain we marry One by one we die.”
Frederic Lawrence Knowles Quotes
Source: Grief and Joy
“Joy is a partnership, Grief weeps alone, Many guests had Cana; Gethsemane but one.”
Frederic Lawrence Knowles Quotes
Source: Grief and Joy
“It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.”
Christopher Marlowe Quotes
Source: Faustus
“Two i's company, three i's trumpery.”
Mrs. Parr Quotes
Source: Adam and Eve (IX, 124)
“A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort. [Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes
Source: De Consolatione ad Marciam (12, 5)
“[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink. [Ante, inquit, cicumspiciendum est, cum quibos edas et bibas, quam quid edas et bibas.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes
Source: Epistles (XIX)
“No possession is gratifying without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes
Source: Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (VI)
“If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Coriolanus (Volumnia at III, ii)
“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 Quotes
Source: Songs Before Sunrise
“A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. [Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.]”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes
Source: Maxims
“An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes
Source: Maxims
“It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes
Source: Maxims
“Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.”
The Talmud Quotes
Source: Talmud, Aboth (IV, 20)