(528 quotes found)
“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people”
Will Rogers
“People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.”
Plato
“A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates”
Josh Billings
“If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.”
Francois Fenelon
“Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.”
Henri Bergson
“Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.”
Wendell L. Willkie
“I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.”
George Clooney
“It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think -- and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the w”
Ernest Hemingway
“The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.”
Calvin Trillin
