COMPANIONSHIP

Related Subjects: Associates, Brotherhood, Friendship

1. Music I heard with you was more than music,
   And bread I broke with you was more than bread.—CONRAD AIKEN, Bread and Music
   

2. A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.—BACON, Essays
   

3. Endeavour, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you.—LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters
   

4. It brings comfort and encouragement to have companions in whatever happens.—DIO CHRYSOSTOM, Third Discourse on Kingship
   

5. "My idea of an agreeable person," said Hugo Bohun, "is a person who agrees with me."—DISRAELI, Lothair

6. Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.—EMERSON, Representative Men
   

7. The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.—EURIPIDES, Aegens
   

8. Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.—EURIPIDES, Phoenix
   

9. Company makes cuckolds.—THOMAS FULLER, Gnomologia
   

10. His room is better than his company.—ROBERT GREENE
    

11. The company makes the feast.—J. HACKWOOD, Good Cheer
    

12. For 'tis always fair weather
    When good fellows get together
    With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.—RICHARD HOVEY, A Stein Song
    

13. "A man is known by the company he keeps"—it is the motto of a prig. Little men with foot rules six inches long, applied their measuring sticks in this way to One who lived nineteen centuries ago. "He sits at meat with publicans and sinners," they tauntingly said assuming that His character was smirched thereby.—ELBERT HUBBARD, The Philistine
    

14. And the bright faces of my young companions
    Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more.—LONGFELLOW, The Spanish Student
    

15. A merry companion is as good as a wagon.—JOHN LYLY, Woman in the Moon
    

16. To no man make yourself a boon companion:
    Your joy will be less, but less will be your grief.—MARTIAL, Epigrams
    

17. Present company excepted.—JOHN O'KEEFFE, The London Hermit
    

18. A glass is good, and a lass is good,
    And a pipe to smoke in cold weather;
    The world is good, and the people are good,
    And we're all good fellows together.—JOHN O'KEEFFE, Sprigs of Laurel
    

19. Keep not ill men company lest you increase the number.—Proverb
    

20. He keeps his road well enough who gets rid of bad company.—Proverb
    

21. A good companion makes good company.—Proverb
    

22. An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

23. We still have slept together,
    Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together;
    And whatso'er we went, like Juno's swans,
    Still we went coupled and inseparable.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
    

24. Company, villainous company, bath been the spoil of me.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

25. It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one of another: therefore let men take heed of their company.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV

26. No man can be provident of his time that is not prudent in the choice of his company.—JEREMY TAYLOR, Holy Living and Dying
    

27. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.—THOREAU, Walden
    

28. As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way seem the shorter.—IZAAK WALTON, The Compleat Angler
    

29. The company in which you will improve most will be least expensive to you.—WASHINGTON,Moral Maxims