Quotes About Association

Thus says the fool: Association with men spoils the character, especially when one has none.

Every company is bad company except that of one's equals.

Here the intellectual cynicism of the Jew almost counterbalances his social unpleasantness.

This is a very imperfect analogy, because the nature of a thing is not a core but a principle.

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

I saw the other loners the way everyone else did-as unappealing, as to be avoided at all costs. If I hung out with one of them, I thought, my unpopular status would get worse, not better, because it would be magnified by association.

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

I'm allergic to cats, so I'm psychologically wired to associating kittens with itchy eyes and popping Claritin.

McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

We always knew that name-recognition wise, that was really my one weakness.

When beginning your entrepreneurial journey, acknowledge that you become a product of the five people you spend the most time with. So choose your company wisely.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

Being a Jehovah's Witness, it was really a trip. We had to go from door to door, and we weren't allowed to associate with the other children. It was a lot of rules.

There's an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they're mostly a bunch of veterans getting drunk in a lodge that they've built to look like a temple. It's just a bunch of guys trying to get away from their wives.

Mathematicians always hoped their field was the one human endeavor where reason would prevail over woke madness. But no such luck. The Mathematical Association of America has succumbed.

Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole purpose of the poem is to enable us to remember some information.

There are these girls who live in Maryland: they're the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of America. They've sent me videotapes of themselves just eating and talking about Hanson, and a loaf of bread that was really moldy by the time it got here.

Stupidity is not an accusation that could be hurled against such prominent early Republicans as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes.

The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.

Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.

While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for the way it connects everything to almost everything else. The hypertext link, as we used to call it, allows any fact or idea to become intimately connected with any other.

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.