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 I think some of (the developments) would be quite nice if there was some space around them. It's alm...
BILL JONSON 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 Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you ...
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 Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you kno...
BILL MAHER No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between fri...
BILL MURRAY President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a ...
BILL O'REILLY Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out ...
BILL VIOLA When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
BILL WATTERSON Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
BILL WATTERSON God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that...
BILL WATTERSON There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
BILL WATTERSON We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
BILL WATTERSON We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves an...
BILL WATTERSON From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
BILL WATTERSON Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's differ...
BILL WATTERSON The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't wa...
BILL WATTERSON The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a...
BILL WATTERSON Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
BILL WATTERSON Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
BILL WATTERSON If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
BILL WATTERSON It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
BILL WATTERSON Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
BILL WATTERSON Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
BILL COPELAND Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.
BILL RANCIC Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But i...
BILL GATES The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft in...
BILL GATES According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first w...
BILL GATES My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a ...
BILL GATES Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated ...
BILL GATES The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
BILL GATES The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
BILL GATES People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision...
BILL GATES In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actua...
BILL GATES My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
BILL GATES In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
BILL GATES I think there will be PCs at every price point.
BILL GATES I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
BILL GATES The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natu...
BILL GATES The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
BILL GATES Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. ...
BILL GATES At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I&...
BILL GATES I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a littl...
BILL GATES Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on...
BILL GATES I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so t...
BILL GATES To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes so...
BILL GATES Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
BILL GATES People everywhere love Windows.
BILL GATES I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
BILL GATES The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
BILL GATES If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago...
BILL GATES Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
BILL GATES Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
BILL GATES I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
BILL GATES China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
BILL GATES The best teacher is very interactive.
BILL GATES Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
BILL GATES The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
BILL GATES