company quotes

• Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. (Mark Twain) [company]
• Better be alone than in bad company. (Thomas Fuller) [company]
• 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. (Francis Bacon) [company/love]
• A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. (Henry Ward Beecher) [garden/company]
• Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received. (Walter Benjamin) [food/life/company/]
• When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty. (William Blake) [sun/company/lord/god]
• People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. (Samuel Butler) [people/company]
• Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. (Thomas Carlyle) [imagination/matter/company/understanding]
• Take the tone of the company you are in. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [take/company]
• For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [company/pleasure/contempt/think]
• Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only made use of. We will have such-a-one, for he sings prettily; we will invite such-a-one to a ball, for he dances well; we will have such-a-one at supper, for he is always joking and laughing; we will ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard. Whoever is had (as it is called) in company for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light; consequently never respected, let his merits be what they will. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [company/account/etiquette/willpower]
• The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [joke/company/company/joke]
• A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [books/company/look/thing]
• A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. (John Gay) [company/contempt]
• Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company. (John Gay) [quality/company]
• Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry. (Oliver Goldsmith) [fortune/company]
• The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. (Oliver Goldsmith) [company/smile/melancholy]
• A man by himself is in bad company. (Eric Hoffer) [company]
• All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no facts at this table. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [horror/facts/company/ingenious]
• Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great. (Samuel Johnson) [company/people/think]
• What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company. (Samuel Johnson) [rest/company]
• Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. (Samuel Johnson) [wine/knowledge/company/motion]
• I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera -- both of which I did as soon as I left the [Acting] Company and was starving. (Kevin Kline) [think/movie/company]
• If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [company/loss]
• Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [company]
• There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage. (Martin Luther) [more/company/marriage]
• I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery? (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [company/news/account/exercise]
• I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [company]
• When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [company/unique/thoughts]
• If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. (David Ogilvy) [people/company/dwarfs]
• A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man --the one he used to be. (Cesare Pavese) [company/youth]

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