315 Quotes by Ben Jonson

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.

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

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing; for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us; but they know it not.

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.