Ben Jonson
Talking is the disease of age.Collection: Age
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.Collection: Success
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.Collection: Good
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.Collection: Happiness
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.Collection: Fear
Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.Collection: Art
He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
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.
They that know no evil will suspect none.
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
This is the very womb and bed of enormity.
Fortune, that favors fools.
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
I do honour the very flea of his dog.
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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.
Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.
And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.
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.
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
He threatens many that hath injured one.
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.Collection: Motivational
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.Collection: Art
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.Collection: Evil
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.Collection: Writing
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.Collection: Book
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.Collection: Inspirational
Peace is never more than one thought away.Collection: Peace
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.Collection: Drinking
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.Collection: Joy
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.Collection: Perfect
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.Collection: Imperfect Things
He was not of an age, but for all time!Collection: Time
A good life is a main argument.Collection: Good Life
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.Collection: Love
That old bald cheater, Time.Collection: Time
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!Collection: Life
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.Collection: Memories
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.Collection: Wise