Ben Jonson Quotes

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

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.

They, who know no evil, will suspect none.

Peace is never more than one thought away.

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

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.

Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.

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.

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

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!

Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.

A good life is a main argument.

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

The way to rise is to obey and please.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.

A good poet's made as well as born.

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

My thoughts and I were of another world.