Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONMan and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONMemory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSONPrinces that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
BEN JONSONWell, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSONThat old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSONThe voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSONIndeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSONPoor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
BEN JONSONGreat honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSONPrevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSONNo man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSONIt is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
BEN JONSONTell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSONYou learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
BEN JONSONTis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
BEN JONSONFor he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSON