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  • 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, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775”, p.413
  • What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.

    Character   Mean   Men  
  • Sad company is bad company.

    "The Farewell Waltz". Book by Milan Kundera, 1972.
  • 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.

    Book   Eye   Tired  
  • There is no better game in the world when you are in good company, and no worse game when you are in bad company.

    Golf   Games   World  
  • I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

    Dream   Moving   Reading  
    "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.
  • If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate . . . Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better.

  • You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.

  • A man by himself is in bad company.

    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
  • An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.

    Samuel Richardson (1856). “Virtue rewarded: in a series of letters, from a beautiful young lady to her parents. A narrative”, p.94
  • It is better to be alone than in bad company.

  • 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.

    Fashion   Flower   Men  
    Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.162, Oxford University Press
  • Bad company ruins good morals.

  • To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.

  • 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.

    Teacher   Years   Secret  
    "Hess' Diary" by Moses Hess, September 16, 1836.
  • Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

    Said in December 1994. "Creating the Digital Future: The Secrets of Consistent Innovation at Intel". Book by Albert Yu, p. 93, 1998.
  • So she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. “Excuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into?

    Friendly   Next   Excuse  
    Dorothy Dunnett (1999). “The Game Of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles Book One”, p.214, Penguin UK
  • There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1320, Delphi Classics
  • 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.

    Song   People   Stuff  
  • To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.

  • He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company.

    Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... With resemblant passages from Cowper's Task, and a verbal index. [Edited by John Peace.]”, p.176
  • If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

  • 'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “English traits”, p.37
  • 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.

    Fall   Reading   Fever  
    Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”
  • What would happen to a body that was starved, suffocated and then forced to drink poison? It would first suffer and then die an agonizing death. We willingly starve and suffocate our hearts by turning away form the remembrance of God. And then we poison our hearts through the bad company we keep, the garbage that goes into our eyes and ears, and emanates from our tongue... And then we wonder why our heart feels dead.

  • Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

    "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1805.
  • Avoid sloth, bad company, dangerous conversations, and games; remembering that time passes and never returns, that you have a soul, and that if you lose your soul, you lose all.

    Games   Soul   Sloth  
    St. Leonard of Port Maurice (1970). “The Hidden Treasure: Holy Mass”, p.106, TAN Books
  • Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

    FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Mar 17, 2017
  • We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

  • Antonio- "Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma." Peter- "Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing?

    Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.82, Vintage Canada
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