315 Quotes by Ben Jonson

To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

If he were / To be made honest by an act of parliament, / I should not alter in my faith of him.

A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.

It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.

I do hold it, and will affirm it before any prince in Europe, to be the most sovereign and precious weed that ever the earth rendered to the use of man.

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.

What excellent fools religion makes of men.