There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
-
-
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 -
How near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSON -
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
BEN JONSON -
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
BEN JONSON -
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
BEN JONSON -
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
BEN JONSON -
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON -
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON -
All concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSON -
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSON -
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSON -
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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 -
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 -
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSON -
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSON -
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
BEN JONSON -
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
BEN JONSON -
A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSON -
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON -
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON -
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSON -
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
BEN JONSON -
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
BEN JONSON -
He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON -
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSON