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Company quotes (13) Learning makes a man fit company for himself. Edward Young Category: Company Misery loves company. John Ray Category: Company A man of wit could often be embarrassed without the company of fools. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Category: Company A man is known by the company he avoids. Proverb Category: Company Tell me what company thou keepst and Ill tell thee what thou art. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Category: Company A man is known by the books he reads. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Company Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. Izaak Walton Category: Company If misery loves company misery has company enough. Henry David Thoreau Category: Company A man is known by the silence he keeps. Oliver Herford Category: Company Edison's greatest achievement came in 1879 when he invented the electric company. Edison's design was a brilliant adaptation of the simple electrical circuit: the electric company sends electricity through a wire to a customer then immediately gets the electricity back through another wire then (this is the brilliant part) sends it right back to the customer again. This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same batch of electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught...the last year any new electricity was generated in the United States was 1937; the electric companies have been merely re-selling it ever since which is why they have so much free time to apply for rate increases. Dave Barry Category: Company To err is human but it is against company policy. Unknown Category: Company A man is known by the company his mind keeps. Thomas Bailey Aldrich Category: Company The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable. John Cheever Category: Company |
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