Quotes from Ben Jonson


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They that know no evil will suspect none.


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


I do honour the very flea of his dog.


Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.


'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.


Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.


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


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


Fortune, that favors fools.


Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.


He threatens many that hath injured one.


And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.


This is the very womb and bed of enormity.


Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.


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


Talking is the disease of age.


In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.


A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.


Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.


Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.