I do honour the very flea of his dog.
— Ben Jonson
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Talking is the disease of age.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
He threatens many that hath injured one.
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.
Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
Fortune, that favors fools.
This is the very womb and bed of enormity.
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
They that know no evil will suspect none.
