
“A man is known by the company he keeps.”
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims
Source: Garg, Anu, A Word A Day, Wordsmith, 2016.02.17
“A man is known by the company he keeps.”
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims
“Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.”
Phœnix Frag. 809
“310. Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, iv. 50.
Bion, 3.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 4: The Academy
“By Silence, the discretion of a man is known: and a fool, keeping Silence, seemeth to be wise.”
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
“You shall know a word by the company it keeps.”
Cited in: [Kenneth Church, 2007, A Pendulum Swung too Far, http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/ldc/swung-too-far.pdf, Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, 6, 4, 5]
"A synopsis of linguistic theory 1930-1955." 1957