Quotes from Ben Jonson

Fortune, that favors fools.

Our whole life is like a play.

This is the very womb and bed of enormity.

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

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

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

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.

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

That old bald cheater, Time.

Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!

He was not of an age, but for all time!

True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink

Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar.

The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care, And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself.

Guilt's a terrible thing.

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

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

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. His cares must still be double to his joys, In any dignity.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

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

There shall be no love lost.

Truth is the trial of itselfAnd needs no other touch,And purer than the purest gold,Refine it ne'er so much.