A man is known by the company he keeps
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A man is known by the company he keeps, and what stellar company Stephen Sondheim will be keeping at “Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration.”
From Los Angeles Times
If, as Euripedes wrote, a man is known by the company he keeps, the ancient real-life radicals are in glittering company.
From Time
If a man is known by the company he keeps, Glaser is known informally at Treasury as the department’s “chief thug” for his zealous approach to talks with North Korean, Iranian and Syrian officials.
From BusinessWeek
If the old proverb be true, that a man is known by the company he keeps, it is equally true, on the other hand, that a statesman may be rightly known by examining the character of his opponents.
From Project Gutenberg
Listen to some of them: honesty is the best policy; a man is known by the company he keeps; he that goes aborrowing, goes asorrowing; a penny saved is a penny earned; birds of a feather flock together ; I would rather be right than President.
From Time Magazine Archive
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