Saint Augustine Quotes

Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other.

Evil changes everybody!

When you surround yourself with the wrong people it's going to backfire every time.

You become like the people you spend the most time with.

Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.

Bad company corrupts good character.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

You got to be careful of the company you keep.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

I've lost a bunch of friends - some of them in jail, some of them made bad choices, some of them aren't where they should be.

There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.

A good friend and a bad friend are like a perfume-seller and a blacksmith: The perfume-seller might give you some perfume as a gift, or you might buy some from him, or at least you might smell its fragrance. As for the blacksmith, he might singe your clothes, and at the very least you will breathe in the fumes of the furnace.

It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree.

It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

It's harder to make the glass than break the glass.

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.