Ben Jonson quotes Born: 06/11/1572 Died: 08/06/1637 Country: united_kingdom

• He threatens many that hath injured one. (Ben Jonson)
• True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. (Ben Jonson) [happiness/choice]
• 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) [art/art/willpower]
• If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick (Ben Jonson) [thoughts]
• When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. (Ben Jonson) [misfortune/enemies/posterity]
• A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect. (Ben Jonson) [brain/motion/mind]
• We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen. (Ben Jonson) [quality/women/fashion]
• O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion! (Ben Jonson) [engine/sun/forget/motion]
• To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. (Ben Jonson) [speak/speak/fool]
• They that know no evil will suspect none. (Ben Jonson) [evil/willpower]
• He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity (Ben Jonson)
• Blueness doth express trueness. (Ben Jonson)
• 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)
• 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)
• In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. (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)
• 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)
• This is the very womb and bed of enormity. (Ben Jonson)

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