black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

Ben Jonson

Nor 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 JONSON

Home Stills Wanderers
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSON

Envy Honor Two
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
BEN JONSON

Done Noble Person Wrong
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSON

Lines Sweat Writing
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON

Honesty Vulgar
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
BEN JONSON

Art Being Poverty True
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

Ancestry Honor Noble
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSON

Father Men Parent
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON

Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSON

Please Success Way
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
BEN JONSON

Glory Greed Wealth
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
BEN JONSON

Benefits Done Men
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSON

Beast Flattery Tyrant
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

Example Law Men Patteren People

Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ben Jonson Quotes