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The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple. (Quote by - Joshua Loth Liebman)

She's happy. She likes the life she's living. But gorillas do need companionship. (Quote by - Scott Mitchell)

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat. (Quote by - Joanne Woodward)

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe. (Quote by - Chanakya)

The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts. There is even a reaction from the ideal of an intellectual and emancipated womanhood, for which the pioneers toiled and suffered, to be seen in painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship. (Quote by - Sylvia Pankhurst)

If you want to read about love and marriage you've got to buy two separate books. (Quote by - Alan King)

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. (Quote by - Algernon Charles Swinburne)

A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort. (Quote by - Seneca)

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. (Quote by - Aristotle)

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. (Quote by - Gloria Swanson)

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

The biggest surprise was how he (George Washington) was so dependent on her companionship that he was eager to have her join him when he was away from home. (Quote by - Patricia Brady)

On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better. (Quote by - James Cronin)

Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. (Quote by - V. F. Calverton)

Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so that it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use. (Quote by - Homer Simpson)

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar, a custom which is still continued. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)

Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)

It is just amazing how much she craves human companionship and affection. She has so much love to give when she herself has been given very little ? particularly over the last four months. It is pretty rough to be in the shelter all week and then paraded out for adoption days. She takes chances on humans over and over again, and is grateful for anything she gets in return. (Quote by - Melissa Peterson)

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)

Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes)

When love is strong, a man and a woman can make their bed on a sword's blade. When love grows weak, a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough. (Quote by - Talmud)

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. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)

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