Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.
Elliott Smith

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
Hal Borland

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson

Better be alone than in bad company.
Thomas Fuller

We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.
Dave Barry

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Charles Baudelaire

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Hedy Lamarr

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Samuel Johnson

For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.
Derek Bailey

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Izaak Walton

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Izaak Walton

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.
Etta James

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
Michael Porter

A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
Michael Porter

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne

I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.
Peter Lynch