“Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.”

—  Stephen King , book The Stand

Source: The Stand

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead." by Stephen King?
Stephen King photo
Stephen King 733
American author 1947

Related quotes

George Washington photo

“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”

George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States

Letter to his niece, Harriet Washington (30 October 1791)
1790s
Variant: It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Thomas Fuller (writer) photo

“872. Better be alone than in bad Company.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

George Washington photo

“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.”

George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
Gary Hamel photo

“A company surrenders today's businesses when it gets smaller faster than it gets better. A company surrenders tomorrow's businesses when it gets better without getting different.”

Gary Hamel (1954) American management expert

Source: Competing for the Future, 1996, p. 17

Yann Martel photo

“Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Euripidés photo

“The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

Ægeus, Frag. 7

Booker T. Washington photo

“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

"Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad Company." This was a French maxim, late 16th century, as quoted by George Washington in his "Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation," Rule # 56 (ca. 1744) http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/civility/transcript.html
Misattributed

Philip Kotler photo

“The sales department isn't the whole company, but the whole company had better be the sales department.”

Philip Kotler (1931) American marketing author, consultant and professor

Philip Kotler cited in: Michael R. Czinkota (1999), Marketing: Best Practices. p. 11

Francois Rabelais photo

“In all companies there are more fools than wise men, and the greater part always gets the better of the wiser.”

Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel

En toutes compagnies il y a plus de folz que de sages, et la plus grande partie surmonte tousjours la meilleure.
Chapter 10 http://books.google.com/books?id=wfRKAQAAIAAJ&q=%22En+toutes+compagnies+il+y+a+plus+de+folz+que+de+sages+et+la+plus+grande+partie+surmonte+tousjours+la+meilleure%22&pg=PA285#v=onepage.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Pantagruel (1532)

Donald J. Trump photo

“We have to do a much better job at giving companies incentives to build new companies or to expand, because they're not doing it.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

Related topics