20 Quotations by Ben Jonson
- 1. 'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to beg ...
- 2. A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pes ...
- 3. All concord's born of contraries.
- 4. Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
- 5. Blueness doth express trueness.
- 6. Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too n ...
- 7. He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
- 8. He threatens many that hath injured one.
- 9. If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
- 10. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
- 11. No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
- 12. O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
- 13. There be some men are born only to suck out the poison of books.
- 14. They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is ...
- 15. They that know no evil will suspect none.
- 16. Those that merely talk and never think, that live in the wild anarchy of drink.
- 17. To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
- 18. True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
- 19. We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
- 20. When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to ...
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