16 Quotations by Ben Johnson
- 1. 'Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

- 2. A good poet's made as well as born.

- 3. Anything that enlarges the sphere of human powers and shows man he can do what he thought he could n ...

- 4. Art has an enemy called ignorance.

- 5. Cares that have entered once in the breast will have whole possession of the rest.

- 6. Force works on servile natures, not the free.

- 7. I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

- 8. Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

- 9. No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...

- 10. Talking and eloquence are not the same thing: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool ma ...

- 11. Talking is the disease of age.

- 12. The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

- 13. The way to rise is to obey and please.

- 14. There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

- 15. Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only t ...

- 16. Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

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