“Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.”
Addison Mizner (1872–1933) American architect
The Cynic's Calendar
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.”
Addison Mizner (1872–1933) American architect
The Cynic's Calendar
“Anxiety loves company almost as much as misery.”
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Source: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 10, “Flight Plan” (p. 296)
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
Source: Bartleby the Scrivener
“Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
“Set out to build a company and make a contribution, not an empire and a fortune.”
David Packard (1912–1996) American electrical engineer, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, businessman, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense,…
Source: Bill & Dave, 2007, p. 394
“I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
“As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.”
Izaak Walton book The Compleat Angler
Part I, ch. 1.
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)