Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSONGood men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSONNothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSONRich 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 JONSONA good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSONThe dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSONWine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSONIn the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSONPopular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSONNor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
BEN JONSONPassions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSONThe day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSONAristotle 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 JONSONGreat honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSONOpinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
BEN JONSONSuccess produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSONThe Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSON