True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSONA good king is a public servant.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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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.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Poor 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.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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It 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.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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