Ben Jonson
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.Collection: Love Is
Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .Collection: Art
Success hath made me wanton.Collection: Made
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.Collection: Art
Freedom doth with degree dispense.Collection: Degrees
Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.Collection: Sweet
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.Collection: Heaven
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than needCollection: Ambition
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.Collection: Eye
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.Collection: Gratitude
Our whole life is like a play.Collection: Life
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.Collection: Honesty
I do honor the very flea of his dog.Collection: Dog
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.Collection: Home
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more.Collection: Time
Hell itself must yield to industry.Collection: Yield
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.Collection: Rudeness
Tell troth and shame the devil.Collection: Truth
Cut Men's throats with whisperings.Collection: Cutting
Silence in woman is like speech in man.Collection: Men
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.Collection: Money
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.Collection: Hate
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.Collection: Father
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.Collection: Wise
Blueness doth express trueness.Collection: Color