Quote: He threatens many that hath injured one. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: 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. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick [Ben Jonson]
Quote: When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion! [Ben Jonson]
Quote: To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: They that know no evil will suspect none. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity [Ben Jonson]
Quote: Blueness doth express trueness. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: Art hath an enemy called Ignorance. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: 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. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: Fortune, that favors fools. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: I do honour the very flea of his dog. [Ben Jonson]
Quote: In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. [Ben Jonson]