You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
BEN JONSON
BEN JONSON
Ben Jonson on fighting
Ben Jonson198 quotes“You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.”
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Ben JonsonBen Jonson Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
Ben JonsonBen Jonson A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
Ben JonsonBen Jonson He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
Ben JonsonBen Jonson The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson 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 JonsonBen Jonson … the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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Barry GoldwaterBarry Goldwater I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that’s what keeps you alive.
Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of BlackburnBarbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn I have worked with some horrible idiots in my life. You learn the pattern of how architects work and the thing is not to fight it. Just to be very quiet, let them get on with it and let them really mess it up.
Barbara HulanickiBarbara Hulanicki I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You’ve got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You’ve got to go out and fight for it.
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