Ben Jonson Quotes

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.

Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

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.

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

He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

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

Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

Fortune, that favors fools.

Let argument bear no unmusical sound.

A good king is a public servant.