Quotes By Ben Jonson

This is the very womb and bed of enormity.

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

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

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

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

Talking is the disease of age.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Fortune, that favors fools.

A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.