“An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 143
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
As quoted in Gems of Thought: Being a Collection of More Than a Thousand Choice Selections, Or Aphorisms, from Nearly Four Hundred and Fifty Different Authors, and on One Hundred and Forty Different Subjects (1888). p. 97 by Charles Northend
“An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 143
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“A blessed companion is a book,—a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend.”
Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857) English dramatist and writer
Books, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“284. A Man knows his Companion in a long Journey and a little Inn.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations”
Margaret Landon (1903–1993) writer, missionary
“roads were made for journeys not destinations”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet
Up-Hill http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/rossetti.uphill.html, st. 1 (1861).
“You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.”
Richard Jeni (1957–2007) American comedian