Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

We need two kinds of acquaintances one to complain to while to the others we boast.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares were there a danger of their coming true

It is the dread of something happening something unknown and dreadful that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true

There are two things to aim at in life first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.

Take the tone of the company you are in.

So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

This kid's excited because he's with Bad Company and I'm excited because I'm with Chuck Berrys' son.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation.

Our loss was very heavy, especially in the officers. Capt. Sale, of Co. E, Duke's regt, was among the killed, making the third Capt. that has been killed in that company.

It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.

I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.

So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow.

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration.