More from Ben Jonson
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 .
Ben JonsonBen Jonson
Original quotes
From our community writers
They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on looks
Marlene Dietrich for the way there was something so unique about her – the way she entered into a frame and everybody looks at her and the way she winks and looks up.
Berenice BejoBerenice Bejo To be thin and to stay really thin, sometimes some people literally do coke all the time. Some people smoke cigarettes instead of eating. That’s crazy. But that’s ‘okay’ because you look healthier.
Beth DittoBeth Ditto I buy most of my clothes online, I just sit around and look at websites and say ‘oh that looks cute’ – and then I just buy it and hopefully it fits because buying stuff online is always sort of risky.
Bethany CosentinoBethany Cosentino You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, “Look, we’re in the same city, we’re in the same building, for God’s sake, the U.N. Let ‘s just sit down and begin to talk peace.”
Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin Netanyahu Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.
Bert HardyBert Hardy Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.
Bernard GoldbergBernard Goldberg Every time a puck gets past me and I look back into the net, I say, ‘uh-oh.’
Bernie ParentBernie Parent Most scientists never look at UFO evidence, which leads to their conclusion that there is no evidence.
Bernard HaischBernard Haisch