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 JONSONIt 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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