315 Quotes by Ben Jonson

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.

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

Poor wretches! I rather pity their folly and indiscretion, than their loss of time and money; for these may be recovered by industry: but to be a fool born is a disease incurable.

Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.

Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

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.

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

Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.

One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering.