
“A man is known by the company he keeps. A company is known by the men it keeps.”
Source: Garg, Anu, A Word A Day, Wordsmith, 2016.02.17
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims
“A man is known by the company he keeps. A company is known by the men it keeps.”
Source: Garg, Anu, A Word A Day, Wordsmith, 2016.02.17
“Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.”
Phœnix Frag. 809
“By Silence, the discretion of a man is known: and a fool, keeping Silence, seemeth to be wise.”
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, iv. 50.
Bion, 3.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 4: The Academy
“A man is known by the books he reads.”
“Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.”
Source: Sugar Daddy
“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.”
As quoted in Ethics and Citizenship (1924) by John Walter Wayland, p. 208.