Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
BEN JONSONDrink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
-
-
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSON -
Our whole life is like a play.
BEN JONSON -
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON -
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
BEN JONSON -
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
BEN JONSON -
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON -
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON -
How near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSON -
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON -
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSON -
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSON -
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
BEN JONSON -
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSON -
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
BEN JONSON -
Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSON