Quotes by : Ben Jonson

Memory of all the powers of the mind is the most delicate and frail.

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries—to read the best authors, observe the....

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine.

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

Dowling Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine Or leave a kiss but in the cup....

Riches, the dumb god that giv'st all men tongues, / That canst do nought, and yet mak'st men do all things;....

Language most shows a man speak that I may see thee.

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