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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