Ben Jonson on smoking
Ben Jonson198 quotes“The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.”
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Remember what the Bible says: He who is without sin, cast the first rock. And I shall smoketh it.
Dave ChappelleDave Chappelle Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.
PinkPink You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald I know I should stop smoking, but it scares me. I mean, what would I turn to next?
PinkPink The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.
Condoleezza RiceCondoleezza Rice I can ask for cigarettes in every language.
David BowieDavid Bowie Don’t drink at all, don’t smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.
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