Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONAmbition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
-
-
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSON -
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSON -
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSON -
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSON -
A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSON -
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
BEN JONSON -
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
BEN JONSON -
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
BEN JONSON -
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSON -
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
BEN JONSON -
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
BEN JONSON -
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSON -
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
BEN JONSON -
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSON -
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON