Quotes from Ben Jonson

But I do hate him as I hate the devil.

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat.

Sweet meat must have sour sauce.

Dowling 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.

I glory more in the coming purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

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

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

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.

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

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

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

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

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.

The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

Silence in woman is like speech in man.

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.