Ben Jonson on smoking
Ben Jonson198 quotes“The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.”
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson How ready is heaven to those that pray!
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Peace is never more than one thought away.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Hell itself must yield to industry.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
Ben JonsonBen Jonson A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
Ben JonsonBen Jonson He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
Benedict CumberbatchBenedict Cumberbatch I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn’t want to smoke, but I didn’t believe myself
Barbara KellyBarbara Kelly Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.
Ben HarperBen Harper Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson …don’t ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let’s just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.
Ben AaronovitchBen Aaronovitch I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don’t understand how she can go so long without food. “Well, I don’t understand how you can go so long without a cigarette,” she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
Barbara EhrenreichBarbara Ehrenreich Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteSidonie Gabrielle Colette I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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