Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
BEN JONSONLet those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
More Ben Jonson Quotes
-
-
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSON -
He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON -
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSON -
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON -
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
BEN JONSON -
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON -
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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 -
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON -
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON -
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
BEN JONSON -
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
BEN JONSON -
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
BEN JONSON -
Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON -
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.
BEN JONSON