Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSONWhat excellent fools religion makes of men.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
-
-
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
BEN JONSON -
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON -
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON -
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON -
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSON -
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSON -
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON -
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
BEN JONSON -
How near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSON -
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
BEN JONSON -
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON -
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON -
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 -
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON -
The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSON