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"The families have become the doctors, the nurses and the social workers."  — Dr. John Talbott

Ben Jonson Quotes

Type: Poet   |    Date of Birth: 1572-06-11   |    Year of Death: 1637   |    Nationality: English
All concord's born of contraries.
Ben Jonson

Blueness doth express trueness.
Ben Jonson

Confound these ancestors... they've stolen our best ideas!
Ben Jonson

He threatens many that hath injured one.
Ben Jonson

I have been at my book, and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation.
Ben Jonson

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
Ben Jonson

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Ben Jonson

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.
Ben Jonson

They that know no evil will suspect none.
Ben Jonson

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
Ben Jonson

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
Ben Jonson

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
Ben Jonson


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