Dante Alighieri Quotes

Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey.

It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.

A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

It's easy to have the wrong type of people around you.

Everyone remembers the bad guy long after they've seen the movie.

For cats, a hound is a natural enemy. This is the order of things.

I got the idea for the song 'Bad Company' when I saw a poster for the Jeff Bridges movie, and it reminded of an old Victorian picture that I'd once seen, and it said, 'Beware of bad company.' So I sat down at the piano and started to write the song.

When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners.

Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.

Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.

The Catt sees not the mouse ever.

The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.

No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.

There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

Sad company is bad company.

If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.

The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, ... says "Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!

It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.