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This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha...
BEN JONSON ![]()
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
BEN JONSON ![]()
A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
BEN JONSON ![]()
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
BEN JONSON ![]()
It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
BEN JONSON ![]()
A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home
Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
...
BEN JONSON ![]()
But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
BEN JONSON ![]()
If he were
To be made honest by an act of parliament
I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
...
BEN JONSON ![]()
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to beg...
BEN JONSON ![]()
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
BEN JONSON ![]()
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON ![]()
He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON ![]()
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pes...
BEN JONSON ![]()
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to...
BEN JONSON ![]()
They that know no evil will suspect none.
BEN JONSON ![]()
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON ![]()
Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON ![]()
All concord's born of contraries.
BEN JONSON ![]()
In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON ![]()
The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
BEN JONSON ![]()
I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON ![]()
So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue,
And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce
L...
BEN JONSON ![]()
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
BEN JONSON ![]()
A brute without a single redeeming point.
BEN JONSON ![]()
O what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
BEN JONSON ![]()
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which ...
BEN JONSON ![]()
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is ...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSON ![]()
A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.
BEN JONSON ![]()
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Cut
Men's throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Where it concerns himself,
Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSON ![]()
The voice so sweet, the words so fair,
As some soft chime had stroked the air;
And though the ...
BEN JONSON ![]()
It strikes! one, two,
Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,
Thy pulse hath bea...
BEN JONSON ![]()
And I had lent my watch last night to one
That dines to-day at the sheriff's.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Small Latin, and less Greek.
BEN JONSON ![]()
It is not growing like a tree
In bulk, doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom
They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Yet the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor
and other tackle.
BEN JONSON ![]()
--They write here one Cornelius--Son
Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel
To swim the hav...
BEN JONSON ![]()
I do honour the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Her treading would not bend a blade of grass,
Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk!
BEN JONSON ![]()
And so to tread
As if the wind, not she, did walk;
Nor prest a flower, nor bow'd a stalk.
BEN JONSON ![]()
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON ![]()
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON ![]()
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON ![]()
See and to be seen.
BEN JONSON ![]()
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to
Shakespeare, that in his writing (w...
BEN JONSON ![]()
For a good poet's made, as well as born,
And such wast thou! Look how the father's face
Lives...
BEN JONSON ![]()
He was not of an age, but for all time!
And all the Muses still were in their prime,
When, lik...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Follow a shadow, it still flies you,
Seem to fly, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she den...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
BEN JONSON ![]()
I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree.
. . . .
Poems are made by foo...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,...
BEN JONSON ![]()
The thirst that from the soul doth rise,
Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Jove's nectar...
BEN JONSON ![]()
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSON ![]()
Have you seen but a bright lily grow, / Before rude hands have touched it? / Have you marked but the...
BEN JONSON ![]()
This is the very womb and bed of enormity.
BEN JONSON ![]()
I have betrayed myself with my own tongue; The case is altered
BEN JONSON ![]()
Reader, look / Not on his picture, but his book.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Sweet swan of Avon!
BEN JONSON ![]()
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSON ![]()
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times
BEN JONSON ![]()
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.
BEN JONSON ![]()
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JONSON ![]()
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise
man speaks.
BEN JONSON ![]()
To the old, long life and treasure;
To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Nature herself was proud of his designs,
And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!
Which we...
BEN JONSON ![]()
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship.
The reason is, the brave beast i...
BEN JONSON ![]()
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his
government is groping.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Princes that would their people should do well
Must at themselves begin, as at the head;
For m...
BEN JONSON ![]()
There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
BEN JONSON ![]()
A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house
BEN JONSON ![]()
Follow a shadow, it still flies you,
Seem to fly it, it will pursue.
So court a mistress, sh...
BEN JONSON ![]()
For he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSON ![]()
The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSON ![]()
The master of art or giver of wit,
Their belly.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Yet shall you have to rectify your palate,
An olive, capers, or some better salad
Ushering the...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.
BEN JONSON ![]()
The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSON ![]()
'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;
But the sweet thefts to reveal;
To be taken, to be seen,
...
BEN JONSON ![]()
The gods
Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,
And must be yours, that guilty men e...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument,
He'll bray you in a mortar.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Still to be neat, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast,
Still to be powder'd, all p...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Follow a shadow, it still flies you,Seem to fly it, it will pursue.So court a mistress, she denies y...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, us...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Good morning to the day: and next, my gold! - / Open the shrine that I may see my saint.
BEN JONSON ![]()
If he were / To be made honest by an act of parliament, / I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON ![]()
The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Wherein the graver had a strife / With Nature to out-do the life.
BEN JONSON ![]()
He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears; / Yet slower yet, O faintly, gentle springs.
BEN JONSON ![]()
I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Art has an enemy called ignorance.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Have you a stool there to be melancholy upon?
BEN JONSON ![]()
Underneath this stone doth lie / As much beauty as could die.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will no...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment
BEN JONSON ![]()
Fortune, that favors fools
BEN JONSON ![]()
Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat
BEN JONSON ![]()
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity
BEN JONSON ![]()
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times
BEN JONSON ![]()
And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
BEN JONSON ![]()
All concord's born of contraries
BEN JONSON ![]()
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON ![]()
She is Venus when she smiles; / But she's Juno when she walks, / And Minerva when she talks.
BEN JONSON ![]()
I have a humour, / I would not willingly be gulled.
BEN JONSON ![]()
A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSON ![]()
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, / Now the sun is laid to sleep, / Seated in thy silver chair, /...
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'...
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&...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
BEN JONSON ![]()
He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Talking is the disease of age.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
BEN JONSON ![]()
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rus...
BEN JONSON ![]()
It is not growing like a tree / In bulk, doth make men better be.
BEN JONSON In the last five years, really since Republicans took control, there seems to be more of this going ...
BILL JONSON Florida means land of flowers, not land of ugly.
BILL JONSON I sure like taking money from Opus.
BILL JONSON This is not a giant step forward to a business owner. It would be more of an indication of support f...
BILL JONSON The billboard folks are masters at delay.
BILL JONSON This puts finality on two cases that have been pending for a long time. Ten years seems like a long ...
BILL JONSON I think some of (the developments) would be quite nice if there was some space around them. It's alm...
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Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names...
BEN CARSON ![]()
If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge...
BEN VEREEN ![]()
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ...
BEN CARSON I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at tha...
BEN MENDELSOHN I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved ...
BEN MENDELSOHN The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put f...
BEN MENDELSOHN My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormo...
BEN MENDELSOHN I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I thin...
BEN MENDELSOHN Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.
BEN MENDELSOHN Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, jus...
BEN MENDELSOHN I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very goo...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind...
BEN MENDELSOHN The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of...
BEN MENDELSOHN I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like ...
BEN MENDELSOHN I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for abou...
BEN MENDELSOHN The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their f...
BEN MENDELSOHN Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.
BEN MENDELSOHN I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
BEN MENDELSOHN The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, live...
BEN MENDELSOHN Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
BEN MENDELSOHN I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a sl...
BEN MENDELSOHN You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it ind...
BEN MENDELSOHN You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke...
BEN MENDELSOHN As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
BEN MENDELSOHN It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
BEN MENDELSOHN I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you...
BEN MENDELSOHN ![]()
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st...
BEN OKRI ![]()
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
BEN SHAPIRO ![]()
Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ...
BEN BERNANKE Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.
BEN ZOBRIST People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they as...
BEN MEZRICH ![]()
Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare...
BEN GOLDACRE Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ...
BEN HUH One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
BEN SILBERMANN ![]()
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ...
BEN OKRI ![]()
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee...
BEN CARSON ![]()
Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An...
BEN CARSON ![]()
I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b...
BEN SCHNETZER ![]()
Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
BEN SHAPIRO ![]()
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the...
BEN OKRI I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci...
BEN WHISHAW ![]()
Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin...
BEN PARR ![]()
Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid...
BEN BERNANKE Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see...
BEN HINSON I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
BEN KATCHOR I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS ![]()
Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His...
BEN SHAPIRO ![]()
President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ...
BEN SHAPIRO ![]()
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another r...
BEN SHAPIRO ![]()
Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, s...
BEN SHAPIRO ![]()
The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for t...
BEN SHAPIRO ![]()
Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do ...
BEN SHAPIRO 
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, us... 
Best while you have it use your breath,
Best while you have it use your breath - There is no drinking after death 
Best while you have it use your breath,There is no drinking after death. (The Bloody Brother) 
And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart:
You live your life today,
Alive without breath,
This is the beginning of a new day.
Now that lilacs are in bloom
Put down your glass, 
unless it comes out of
Tomorrow we shall meet, 
Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.
Perhaps ... 
I have no heart?--Perhaps I have not;
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know,
For I dance 
Swallowing that chocolate you just ate
DON'T SAY, DO
You say I am repeating 
If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe.
If today is not your day, 
Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death."
Delight in your weaknesses because they make you stronger
There is no certainty, not even your next breath. 
Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not,
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
The houses have been condemned on Memory Lane
What is this thing you call substance abuse? 
Oh seek, my love, your newer way; 
Oh, seek, my love, your newer way;
You enter the forest
Death is buried there into death 
Then to this earthen Bowl did I adjourn
Life is a valuable and unique opportunity
Read this to yourself. Read it silently.
Days like this, like your day today. 
The ugly parts of love can’t lift you up.
The Seven Commandments:
I hold it true that thoughts are things
If we shadows have offended, 
there is [...]
I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future."
No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you kno... 
I tramp the perpetual journey
What I like doing best is Nothing."
So what I want to know is why it is that I can no longer find you, in my mind. You are still there, ... 
Do you realise how much trouble you're in?"
Come away, come away, Death,
Life has no victims. There are no victims in this life.
Today is all you have.
Dreaming at the Ballet"
Little Fly
We shall enjoy it
Joy, not sorrow.
Cover your glass in France or Germany --even worse, in England - and in the voice of someone who has... 
Eve: What is it about asking you Catholic questions that gets you all jumpy?
Not marble nor the gilded monuments
[THE DAILY BREATH]
Some day we will try
I want to write something
Rosencrantz: Do you think death could possibly be a boat?
I know 
I have something to tell you."
Past is dead
Lay a golden egg.
You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
Tomorrow is tomorrow.
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth. 
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar. 
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names... 
If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge... 
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st... 
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. 
Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ... 
Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare... 
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ... 
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee... 
I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b... 
Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin... 
Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid... 
Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His... 
Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, s... 