Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONMan and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONMany punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
BEN JONSON[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSONHow near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSONI do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSONCalumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSONThere is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSONThere is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
BEN JONSONWhosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
BEN JONSONWhom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSONPrevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSONWine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSONThe Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSONNor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
BEN JONSONOds 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 JONSONWords borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON