Companionship

Companionship is the state of having or being a companion, or having an association or a fellowship with another.

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• Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
  • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-1615), Volume III, Part II, Chapter XXIII.

• Better your room than your company.
  • Simon Forman, Marriage of Wit and Wisdom (c. 1570).

• Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
  • Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living, 1938-01-19

• It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
  • Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living, 1938-10-13

• How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?
  • Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living, 1945-11-28

• How is it less or worse
  That it shall hold companionship in peace
  With honour, as in war?
  • William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (c. 1607-08), Act III, scene 2, line 49.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124-25.

• Pares autem vetere proverbio, cum paribus facillime congregantur.
  • Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
  • Cicero, Cato Major De Senectute, III. 7.

• We are in the same boat.
  • Pope Clement I, to the Church of Corinth.

• Ah, savage company; but in the church
  With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.
  • Dante Alighieri, Inferno, XXII. 13.

• The right hands of fellowship.
  • Galatians, II. 9.

• Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
  • It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.
  • Quoted by Dominicus de Gravina, Chron. de Rebus, in Apul. Gest. Thomas à Kempis, De Valle Siliorum, Chapter 16. Dionysius Cato. Spinoza, Ethics, IV. 57 ("Alorum" for "doloris." Thucydides, VII. 75.

• It takes two for a kiss
  Only one for a sigh,
  Twain by twain we marry
  One by one we die.
  • Frederick L. Knowles, Grief and Joy.

• Joy is a partnership,
  Grief weeps alone,
  Many guests had Cana;
  Gethsemane but one.
  • Frederick L. Knowles, 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, Faustus.

• Two i's company, three i's trumpery.
  • Mrs. Parr, Adam and Eve, IX. 124.

• Male voli solatii genus est turbu miserorum.
  • A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
  • Seneca, Consol. ad Marc.', 12, 5.

• Ante, inquit, circumspiciendum est, cum quibos edas et bibas, quam quid edas et bibas.
  • [Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
  • Seneca, Epistles, XIX.

• Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.
  • No possession is gratifying without a companion.
  • Seneca, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, VI.

• 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, Songs Before Sunrise.

• Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.
  • A pleasant companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
  • Syrus, Maxims.

• Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
  • Talmud, Aboth, IV. 20.