A man is known by the company he keeps

1. Our character is reflected in our choice of friends.

Example Sentences

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.”

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If, as Euripedes wrote, a man is known by the company he keeps, the ancient real-life radicals are in glittering company.

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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.

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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.

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A man is known by the company he keeps—how much more a woman.

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