Ben Jonson on smoking
Ben Jonson198 quotes“The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.”
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
Ben JonsonBen Jonson It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson He was not of an age, but for all time!
Ben JonsonBen Jonson I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
Bill VaughanBill Vaughan And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it
Black ThoughtBlack Thought It is hard to quit smoking. Every one of them looks real good to me right about now. Every cigarette looks like it was made by God, rolled by Jesus and moistened shut with Claudia Schiffer’s pussy.
Bill HicksBill Hicks That’s what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?
Beth HenleyBeth Henley I regret starting drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes and joining Facebook.
Berhan AhmedBerhan Ahmed FLYING DOWN SUNSET SMOKING CRACK TRANSVESTITE IN THE FRONT EDDI MURPHY IN THE BACK MOP HAD ME GRINDY AND GRIDDY MARILYN MANSON.
BizarreBizarre I love smoking. I miss it every day of my life. If I found out that it didn’t cause cancer, I would go out and buy, like, eight cartons right now.
Beth GrantBeth Grant When I was an art student in the early 60′s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
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