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Society: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.— BACON — Essays. Civil and Moral. Of
Friendship. A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one- And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all.— ROBERT BROWNING — Luria. Act V. L. 334.
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.— EURIPIDES — Phœmissæ. Frag. 809.
For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.— HENRY GEORGE — Social Problems. Ch. IX.
The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.— GIBBON — Memoirs. Vol. I. P. 116.
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Rasselas. Ch. XVI.
He might have proved a useful adjunct, if And airy hopes my children. not an ornament to society.— CHARLES LAMB — Captain Starkey.
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.— L. E. LANDON
A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.— MACAULAY — Essays. Moore's Life of
Lord Byron. For solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. IX. L. 249.
Heav'n forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. II. L. 249.
Society is no comfort To one not sociable.— Shakespeare — Cymbeline. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 12.
To make society The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself Till supper-time alone.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 42.
Whilst I was big in clamour came there in a man, Who, having seen me in my worst estate, Shunn'd my abhorr'd society.— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 208.
Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.— ALGERNON SIDNEY — Discourses on Government. Ch. II. Sec. XVIII.
Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanille of society. S.
La Société est l'union des hommes, et non pas les hommes. Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.— MONTESQUIEU — De l'Esprit. X. 3.
La société est partagée en deux classes: les tondeurs et les tondus. Il faut toujours être avec les premiers contre les seconds. Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter. h. TALLEYRAND. Le sage quelquefois évite le monde de peur d'être ennuyé. The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.— LA BRUYÈRE — Les Caractères. V.