Sociable Quotes

• Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Relationship, Friends

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Heart, People, Intellect

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• Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.

  William Shakespeare

  Solitude, Comfort

  1610 Innogen. Cymbeline, act 4, sc.2, l.12-13.

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• I'm a star player when it comes to being sociable. It's because I'm inquisitive. When I meet someone for the first time, I want to start up a conversation with them.

  Seungri

  Stars, Player, Want

  Source: ygfambam.wordpress.com

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• We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

  John Updike

  Sane

  Christian Science Monitor, March 5, 1979.

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• Being sociable is a sacrifice, as I see it. I really don't like to be, but it is necessary and worth it.

  Varg Vikernes

  Sacrifice, Worth It

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wisdom, Luck, Familiar

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• Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

  John Gay

  Men, Animal, Together

  John Gay (1791). “The Beggar's Opera: A Comic Opera”, p.73

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• My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

  Franz Kafka

  Cheating, Loneliness, Mean

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• The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Men, Emotion

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• A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.

  Jack Kerouac

  Teeth, Mouths

  "Desolation Angels". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1965.

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• Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Character, Men, Littles

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.26, 谷月社

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• We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts -
  which means that we've lost sight of who we really are. Depending on which study you consult, one third to one half of Americans are introverts - in other words, one out of every two or three people you know.

  Susan Cain

  Mean, Sight, Two

  "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking". Book by Susan Cain, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2012.

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• I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.

  Franz Kafka

  Loneliness, Vegetarianism, Alcohol

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• My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

  Bill Gates

  Mom, Dad, People

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• A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Manners, Wells

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• I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that.

  Jay Gould

  Sports, Horse, Children

  "The Life and Legend of Jay Gould". Book by Maury Klein, 1986.

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• I've always been quiet and kind of shy. I'm sociable, but I would probably migrate to a corner.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Shy, Quiet, Kind

  "Sugar Ray Leonard Interview Real Steel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Creation, even when it is a mere outpouring from the heart, wishes to find a public. By definition, creation is sociable. Yet it can be satisfied with merely one single reader: an old friend, a lover.

  Lu Xun

  Heart, Old Friends, Wish

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• Scoundrels are always sociable.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Scoundrels, Human Condition

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• I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.

  David Walliams

  Thrive, Company

  "Walliams on love, sexuality and loneliness" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2009.

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• They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal, consists not in his desire of Company, Good-nature, Pity, Affability, and other Graces of a fair Outside; but that his vilest and most hateful Qualities are the most necessary Accomplishments to fit him for the largest, and, according to the World, the happiest and most flourishing Societies.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Art, Animal, Men

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.1, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read because we know we're alone. Reading offers a kind of companionship that takes no one's place but that no one can replace either. It offers no definitive explanation of our destiny but links us inextricably to life. Its tiny secret links remind us of how paradoxically happy we are to be alive while illuminating how tragically absurd life is.

  Daniel Pennac

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• "Couch surfing" refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.

  Patricia Marx

  Practice, Surfing, Stranger

  "You're Welcome" by Patricia Marx, www.newyorker.com. April 16, 2012.

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• For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.

  Herman Melville

  Death, Heart, Sleep

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