Patience is the companion of wisdom.

- Saint Augustine

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

- Charles Dickens

'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.

- A. N. Wilson

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

- Baltasar Gracian

Most important, though, I had to wait until I found the perfect traveling/eating/drinking/napping companion. And I did finally find him, two years ago - my Brazilian-born, French-speaking, wine-worshipping, tripe-consuming, uncomplaining traveler of a sweetheart.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier - which probably makes me a somewhat tiresome companion at times.

- Gretchen Rubin

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

- Hesiod

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

- Isaac D'Israeli

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

- Jose Mujica

I am a woman who, you know, I run my own business. I don't need a man financially, for anything, but just to be a companion.

- Jessica White

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

- James Boswell

A merry companion is as good as a wagon.

- John Lyly

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

- Michel de Montaigne

When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self.

- Rory MacLean

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

- Samuel Richardson

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

- Victoria Abril