Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON
Fortune, that favors fools.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
-
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSON -
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON -
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSON -
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSON -
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON -
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 -
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSON -
-
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
BEN JONSON -
-
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
BEN JONSON -
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSON -
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
BEN JONSON -
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON -
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSON -
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSON