Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSONFreedom doth with degree dispense.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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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.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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