 |
Advice
|
|
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
-Ben Johnson
|
|
Age
|
|
|
Talking is the disease of age.
-Ben Johnson
|
|
Art
|
|
|
Art has an enemy called ignorance.
-Ben Johnson
|
|
Drinking
|
|
|
I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.
-Ben Johnson, Every Man In His Humor
|
|
Hell
|
|
|
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
-Ben Johnson
|
|
Home
|
|
|
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
-Ben Johnson
|
|
Language
|
|
|
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
-Ben Johnson
|
|
Money
|
|
|
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
-Ben Johnson
|
|
News
|
|
|
I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
-Ben Johnson
|
|
Poetry
|
|
|
A good poet's made as well as born.
-Ben Johnson
|
|
Power
|
|
|
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
-Ben Johnson
|
|
Snow
|
|
|
Have you seen but a bright lily grow,
Before rude hands have touched it?
Have you marked but the fall o' the snow
Before the soil hath smutched it?...
O so white! O so soft! O so sweet is she!
-Ben Johnson, Celebration of Charis, IV, `Her Triumph'
|
|
Worry
|
|
|
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
-Ben Johnson
|
Books by and about Ben Johnson