"Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity……" — Ben Jonson
"Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers."
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174 Quotes by Ben Jonson
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and…
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.
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There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
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I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the…
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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard…
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If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well.…
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That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible…
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully…
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We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.
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He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches…
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our…
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I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold…
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