Companionship Quotes

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. View quote
Amelia Earhart
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. View quote
Henry Adams
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
At the end of what is called the sexual life the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship. View quote
Graham Greene
It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them. View quote
Anne Tyler
The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship. View quote
Alex Campbell
Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill. View quote
Vince Gill
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. (Rachel Carson)
I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair. View quote
Gore Vidal
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The bottom line is that people don't have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it. View quote
Wole Soyinka
But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing. View quote
Wole Soyinka
Isolation offered its own form of companionship. View quote
Jhumpa Lahiri
Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly. View quote
Bill Gates
The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it. (Leonardo da Vinci)
... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. View quote
Aristotle
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. View quote
Franz Kafka
We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends. View quote
Sophie Kinsella
I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else. View quote
Joshua Slocum