black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Ben Jonson

No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON

Frail Memories Mind
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON

Indeed Luck Names Woundy
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSON

Men Strange Wrecks
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSON

Gratitude Men Needs
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON

Leadership May Men
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSON

Angry Concern Slander
A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSON

Good King Kings Servant
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
BEN JONSON

Drinking Sorrow Use
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
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSON

Anchors Needs Sea
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
BEN JONSON

Intermission Newest Present Themselves
For he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSON

Good Greatness Once
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
BEN JONSON

Folly Impudence Rudeness
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSON

Long Pleasure Treasure

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ben Jonson Quotes