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A man is known by the company he keeps

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Aesop
Greek - Author
620 BC - 564 BC

A wise man once said that a person is known by the company he keeps, but could then also add that the character of the company is known by the people it keeps for the longest days, especially at the strategic decision making level.

Anuj

A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.

Evan Esar

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

J. Oswald Sanders

A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.

William J. H. Boetcker

A company is known by the people it keeps.

Will Rogers

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

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

Oliver Herford

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

Mark Twain

The health establishment is a blood brotherhood known by the company it keeps, and these moguls need no oath or ritual as they work hand in glove with and for each other - if medicine benefits in the process, all to the good.

Edgar Berman

Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided.

Joseph Fielding Smith

Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps

J. C. Ryle

A man is known by the company he owns.

Vince Lombardi

A man is known by the company he organizes.

Ambrose Bierce

In our society a man is known by the company he owns.

Gerald F. Lieberman

We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king

Peter Weiss

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