Quotes about Company

“Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.”

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

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

“Man loves company — even if it is only that of a small burning candle.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one -- they show one another off to the best advantage.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”