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.
BEN JONSONIt is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
-
-
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
BEN JONSON -
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSON -
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSON -
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSON -
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON -
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSON -
I 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 JONSON -
Rich 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 JONSON -
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON -
For he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSON -
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
BEN JONSON -
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
BEN JONSON -
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
BEN JONSON -
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSON -
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSON