black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .

Ben Jonson

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
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON

Live Pride Short
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

Blind Love Slight Thinking
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
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSON

Art Men Monsters
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
BEN JONSON

Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
BEN JONSON

Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON

Hate Hatred Ignorant
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
BEN JONSON

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

Glasses Men Speech
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
BEN JONSON

Half Heaven Venture
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
BEN JONSON

Boys Mean Money
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON

Argument Bears Sound
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
BEN JONSON

Glory Greed Wealth
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSON

Birthday Praying Return
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSON

Good Loss Men Rise

Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ben Jonson Quotes