“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
“Any man in the company of two women is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be.”
— Kingsley Amis, book The Old Devils
The Old Devils (1986)
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“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace
Source: War and Peace
“Marry women who are loving and very prolific, for I shall outnumber the peoples by you.”
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Narrated Ma'qil ibn Yasar, in AbuDawud, Book 11, Number 2045
Sunni Hadith
Context: A man came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and said: I have found a woman of rank and beauty, but she does not give birth to children. Should I marry her? He said: No. He came again to him, but he prohibited him. He came to him third time, and he (the Prophet) said: Marry women who are loving and very prolific, for I shall outnumber the peoples by you.
“As Man steps down in amiable wisdom
To give himself what no one else can give:
His liberty.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
Christ, Old Student in a New School (1972)
Context: That so much time was wasted in this pain.
Ten thousand years ago he might have let off down
To not return again!
A dreadful laugh at last escapes his lips;
The laughter sets him free.
A Fool lives in the Universe! he cries.
The Fool is me!
And with one final shake of laughter
Breaks his bonds.
The nails fall skittering to marble floors.
And Christ, knelt at the rail, sees miracle
As Man steps down in amiable wisdom
To give himself what no one else can give:
His liberty.
Merle Shain (1935–1989) Canadian writer
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
"A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz", in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Variant: Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment — the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
