Men Quotes by Ben Jonson

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

— Ben Jonson

Cut Men's throats with whisperings.

— Ben Jonson

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

— Ben Jonson

The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.

— Ben Jonson

Man and wife make one fool.

— Ben Jonson

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

— Ben Jonson

Silence in woman is like speech in man.

— Ben Jonson

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

— Ben Jonson

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.

— Ben Jonson

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

— Ben Jonson

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

— Ben Jonson

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

— Ben Jonson

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.

— Ben Jonson

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

— Ben Jonson

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

— Ben Jonson

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in…

— Ben Jonson

Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern…

— Ben Jonson

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

— Ben Jonson

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

— Ben Jonson

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to…

— Ben Jonson

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only…

— Ben Jonson

Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her…

— Ben Jonson

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his…

— Ben Jonson

Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of…

— Ben Jonson

Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices…

— Ben Jonson

That I might live alone once with my gold! O, 'tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it…

— Ben Jonson

No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err,…

— Ben Jonson

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

— Ben Jonson

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

— Ben Jonson

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

— Ben Jonson

Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

— Ben Jonson

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

— Ben Jonson

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

— Ben Jonson

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

— Ben Jonson

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

— Ben Jonson

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much…

— Ben Jonson

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by…

— Ben Jonson

A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not…

— Ben Jonson

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves…

— Ben Jonson

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason,…

— Ben Jonson