Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSONNothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSONReady writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSONHe that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSONPeace is never more than one thought away.
BEN JONSONI’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSONNo glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSONThe burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSONA good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSONGood men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSONWine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSONThy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSONAnd where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSONThe world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSONYour highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSONThe dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSONYou are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
BEN JONSON