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A woman, the more careful she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
Ben Jonson
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
Ben Jonson
Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.
Ben Jonson
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
Ben Jonson
O, for an engine to keep back all clocks!
Ben Jonson
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Ben Jonson
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben Jonson
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Ben Jonson
They that know no evil will suspect none.
Ben Jonson
Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.
Ben Jonson
To struggle when hope is banished. To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished - To endure, and go calmly on!
Ben Jonson
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson
Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die.
Ben Jonson
Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.
Ben Jonson
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Ben Jonson
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