Companions Quotes

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

Dylan Thomas

People are know by the company they keep. Companies are known by the people they keep.

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The ability to sign a check is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.

David Plowright

If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.

Thomas J. Peters

Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

Henry David Thoreau

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

Steve Ross

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.

William Shakespeare

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

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.

Lord Chesterfield

We've got a lemon factory and we're turning out 80-85 percent lemons.

Albert Shanker

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Thomas Traherne

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

Frank Moore Colby