The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSONThe burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSONMan and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONIt strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
BEN JONSONThe dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSONLanguage most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSONReader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSONI 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 JONSONOne woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSONWell, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSONWho casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSONHow Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSONRich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
BEN JONSONSuccess produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSONMany punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
BEN JONSONPrevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSONI am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
BEN JONSON