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Ben Jonson Quotes
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Type: Poet Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes Date of Birth: June 11, 1572 Date of Death: August 6, 1637 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Ben Jonson Related Authors: Alexander Pope W. H. Auden Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Dryden Edward Young Percy Bysshe Shelley Alfred Lord Tennyson Herbert Read |
A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
Ben Jonson Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need. Ben Jonson And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek. Ben Jonson Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet. Ben Jonson Art hath an enemy called Ignorance. Ben Jonson Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. Ben Jonson Fortune, that favors fools. Ben Jonson Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times. Ben Jonson He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity. Ben Jonson He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. Ben Jonson He threatens many that hath injured one. Ben Jonson Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. Ben Jonson I do honour the very flea of his dog. Ben Jonson If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick. Ben Jonson Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. Ben Jonson In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. Ben Jonson Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee. Ben Jonson Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. Ben Jonson Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue. Ben Jonson Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco. Ben Jonson O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion! Ben Jonson Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. Ben Jonson Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. Ben Jonson Talking is the disease of age. Ben Jonson There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear. Ben Jonson They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. Ben Jonson They that know no evil will suspect none. Ben Jonson This is the very womb and bed of enormity. Ben Jonson 'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end. Ben Jonson To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. Ben Jonson True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. Ben Jonson Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. Ben Jonson Weigh the meaning and look not at the words. Ben Jonson |
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