Best company & bad-company Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.”

People Song Stuff Company Written Bad Company

Author:Mick Ralphs

“alone, adj. In bad company.”

Company Solitude Bad Company

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged

“An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.”

Heart Company Honest Temptation Trusted Bad Company

Book:Virtue rewarded: in a series of letters, from a beautiful young lady to her parents. A narrative

Source: Virtue rewarded: in a series of letters, from a beautiful young lady to her parents. A narrative

“Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.”

Way Individual Company Weakness Crisis Destroyed Good Company Great Company Bad Company

Book:The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

Source: The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

“In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me. My teachers were inhuman beings [Unmenschen], my colleagues were bad company, inducing me to secret sin; my body was frail, my spirit raw.”

Years Body Spirit Born Sin Secret Company Teacher Beats Educated Quarters Colleagues Frail Inhuman Bad Company

Author:Moses Hess

“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.”

Certain Fall Reading Company Novel Minutes Students Reader Ten Fever Bad Company

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“Bad company ruins good morals.”

Company Moral Morality Ruins Good Moral Bad Company

Author:Paul the Apostle

“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.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.”

Men Care Language Company Fashion Expression Flower Characteristics Rhetoric Vulgar Vulgarity Proverbial Bad Company Bad Education

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.”

Company Investing Good And Bad Comes And Goes Bad Company Stock Price

Author:Benjamin Graham

“We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.”

Thinking Company Vanity Vain Bored Boredom Brag Bad Company

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Sad company is bad company.”

Company Bad Company

Author:Milan Kundera

“I had an idea for a medical conspiracy thriller. Since it was non-horror, I didn't want the publishers and editors bringing a lot of baggage - my history as a genre writer in the SF and horror fields, for instance - to the novel when they read it. I wanted them to consider the book solely on its own merits. So I called myself Colin Andrews. I was tired of seeing my books at floor level. Not that Herman Wouk and Phyllis Whitney and William Wharton are bad company, but I wanted to be up at eye level for a change, where people with bad backs could get a chance to see my books.”

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Author:F. Paul Wilson

“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.”

Firsts May Littles Done Company Draws Destruction Difficulty Blow Woods Driven Posts Nails Bad Company

Author:Saint Augustine

“I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.”

Ifs Has Beens Company Obliged Bad Company

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Horace Walpole (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace Walpole (Illustrated)

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