A crowd is not company. [ Proverb ]
Company makes cuckolds. [ Proverb ]
Company in misery makes it light. [ Proverb ]
Two is company, but three is none. [ Proverb ]
No road is long with good company. [ Turk. Proverb ]
Better your room than your company. [ Simon Forman ]
Frequent the company of your betters. [ Thackeray ]
A boy is known by the company he keeps. [ Proverb ]
An affected superiority spoils company. [ Proverb ]
Better to be alone than in bad company. [ Proverb ]
The bread eaten, the company dispersed. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Reading is a dissuasion from immorality.
Reading stands in the place of company. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Company in distress make the sorrow less. [ Proverb ]
In the company of strangers silence is safe. [ Proverb ]
There is nobody will go to hell for company. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Seven may be company, but nine are confusion. [ Proverb ]
Learning makes a man fit company for himself. [ Proverb ]
Merry is the company till the reckoning comes. [ Proverb ]
Music is best enjoyed in the company of others. [ Hwuy Yung ]
He that boasts of himself affronts his company. [ Proverb ]
In married life three is company and two is none. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Keep good company, and you shall be of the number. [ George Herbert ]
Confidence goes farther in company than good sense. [ Proverb ]
Who keep company with the wolf, will learn to howl. [ Proverb ]
Wise men may look ridiculous in the company of fools. [ Proverb ]
Wit without judgment is a weary thing to the company. [ Proverb ]
It is a mean ambition to be the squire of the company. [ Proverb ]
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools. [ Proverb ]
Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me. [ William Shakespeare ]
A company of tyrants is inaccessible to all seductions. [ Voltaire ]
Friendship and company are a bad excuse for ill actions. [ Proverb ]
He that is not company-proof will be ensnared in company. [ Proverb ]
A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company. [ Swift ]
He that laughs when he is alone will make sport in company. [ Proverb ]
Fools and madmen ought not to be left in their own company. [ Proverb ]
The company keeper has almost as many snares as companions. [ Proverb ]
When you are in vicious company you are among your enemies. [ Proverb ]
Solitude dulls the thought, too much company dissipates it. [ Proverb ]
If you can abide a curst wife, you need not fear any company. [ Proverb ]
Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it. [ Lord Chesterfield ]
Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep. [ Paxton Hood ]
If you make Bacchus your god, Apollo will not keep you company. [ Proverb ]
Ah! wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company! [ Cowley ]
I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that can abide a curst wife need not fear what company he lives in. [ Proverb ]
Clowns are best in their own company, but gentlemen are best every where. [ Proverb ]
The company in which you will improve most will be least expensive to you. [ George Washington ]
A man of wit would often be much embarrassed without the company of fools. [ La Roche ]
He that dies without the company of good men puts not himself into a good way. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Imagination is but a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. [ Carlyle ]
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. [ Coleridge ]
No man can be provident of his time who is not prudent in the choice of his company. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
It was Dean Swift who ignored the bill of fare, and asked for a bill of the company. [ N. P. Willis ]
A man of wit would often be much embarrassed if it were not for the company of fools. [ La Roche ]
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and education must finish him. [ Locke ]
Education begins the gentleman, but leading, good company, and reflection must finish him. [ Locke ]
Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other. [ Lord Chesterfield ]
Bad company,
muttered the thief, as he stepped to the gallows between the hangman and a monk. [ Dutch Proverb ]
We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by introducing it only to the best books. [ Sydney Smith ]
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. [ Rochefoucauld ]
The reason why lovers never weary of each other's company is because they speak always of themselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves. [ Dr. Johnson ]
I am amazed how men can call her blind, when, by the company she keeps, she seems so very discriminating. [ Goldsmith ]
If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep. [ G. D. Prentice ]
It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon. [ Chesterfield ]
I change my place, but not my company. While here I have sometimes walked with God, and now I go to rest with Him. [ Dr. Preston ]
Paradise must be a tiresome place if it is peopled only by those saintly souls whose company we so dread here below. [ De Finod ]
No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint. [ Chesterfield ]
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men. [ Cicero ]
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. [ Hume ]
The wit of language is so miserably inferior to the wit of ideas that it is very deservedly driven out of good company. [ Sydney Smith ]
Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. [ George Washington ]
The earth doth not cover our beloved, but heaven hath received him; let us tarry for awhile, and we shall be in his company. [ St. Basil ]
A wise man in the company of those who are ignorant has been compared by the sages to a beautiful girl in the company of blind men. [ Saadi ]
People are not aware of the very great force which pleasantry in company has upon all those with whom a man of that talent converses. [ Steele ]
None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves. [ Colton ]
Associate with men of judgment, for judgment is found in conversation, and we make another man's judgment ours by frequenting his company. [ Thomas Fuller ]
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company. [ Swift ]
Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. [ Paxton Hood ]
On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company and dissipation without pleasure. [ Edward Gibbon ]
Books give the same turn to our thoughts that company does to our conversation, without loading our memories, or making us even sensible of the change. [ Swift ]
No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. [ Colton ]
Oh, but books are such safe company! They keep your secrets well; they never boast that they made your eyes glisten, or your cheek flush, or your heart throb. [ Mrs. S. P. Parton ]
Mountains never shake hands.
Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]
A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life. [ Willmott ]
True art is like good company; it constrains us in the most charming way to recognise the standard after which and up to which our innermost being is shaped by culture. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether. [ Coleridge ]
There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with ourselves. [ Joubert ]
As friendship must be founded on mutual esteem, it cannot long exist among the vicious; for we soon find ill company to be like a dog, which dirts those the most whom he loves the best. [ Chatfield ]
Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep company some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, isolated peaks. So it is with great men. [ Hare ]
It may be laid down as a general rule that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only a second place. [ Fielding ]
Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because mother of thought. Both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business, which are signs of being weary of themselves. [ Sir W. Temple ]
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. [ Bacon ]
Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us in human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves. [ A. B. Alcott ]
A companion that feasts the company with wit and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. [ Izaak Walton ]
We should carry up our affections to the mansions prepared for us above, where eternity is the measure, felicity the state, angels the company, the Lamb the light, and God the inheritance and portion of His people forever. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Bashfulness is a great hindrance to a man, both in uttering his sentiments and in understanding what is proposed to him; it is therefore good to press forward with discretion, both in discourse and company of the better sort. [ Bacon ]
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while. [ Emerson ]
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. [ St. Augustine ]
Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us. [ Pilpay ]
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there. [ Quarles ]
There is a sort of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in exaggeration; their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame. [ Hume ]
We may be sure that cheerful beliefs about the unseen world, framed in full harmony with the beauty of the visible universe, and with the sweetness of domestic affections and joys, and held in company with kindred and friends, will illuminate the dark places on the pathway of earthly life and brighten all the road. [ Charles W. Eliot ]
A phlegmatic insensibility is as different from patience as a pool from a harbor; into the one, indolence naturally sinks us; but if we arrive at the other, it is by encountering many an adverse wind and rough wave, with a more skillful pilot at the helm than self, and a company under better command than the passions. [ L. W. Dilwyn ]
If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you. But I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself; it puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company, and takes up a great deal of time which might be much better employed. [ Chesterfield ]
Might I give counsel to any young hearer, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and life is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admire, - they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly. [ Thackeray ]
What delight will it afford to renew the sweet counsel we have taken together, to recount the toils, the combats, and the labor of the way, and to approach, not the house, but the throne of God, in company, in order to join in the symphonies of heavenly voices, and lose ourselves amidst the splendor and fruitions of the beatific vision. [ Robert Hall ]
The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it, whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel at evening that the day was well worth its fatigues. [ Lucy Larcom ]
We readily excuse paralytics from labor; and shall we be angry with a hypochondriac for not being cheerful in company? Must we stigmatize such an unfortunate person as peevish, positive, and unfit for society? His disorder may no more suffer him to be merry, than the gout will suffer another to dance. The advising a melancholic to be cheerful is like bidding a coward to be courageous, or a dwarf be taller. [ Wollaston ]
Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us. [ Lowell ]
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age. [ Emerson ]
Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]