You don't dip your pen in company ink
Meaning: Romantic entanglements with colleagues create workplace conflicts and jeopardize professional reputation.
Origin: Workplace advice against romance with a coworker, drawn from the days of dip pens and inkwells. Its first use hasn't been traced.
More proverbs about Wisdom
- You don't miss the water till the well runs dry — We overlook what sustains us until deprivation forces us to recognize its true value.
- Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones. — Distance fades mild affections but makes intense ones burn all the hotter.
- The absent are always at fault. — Those not present to defend themselves get the blame.
- Give neither advice nor salt until you are asked for it. — Offer advice only when it's asked for; unsolicited counsel is rarely welcome.
- What every one asks, what every one gives, but what very few take--advice. — Everyone seeks and gives advice, yet almost no one actually follows it.
- Two of a trade seldom agree. — Rivals in the same business rarely agree; competition breeds friction between them.