Quote

Drink today, and drown all sorrow You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow Best, while you have it, use your breath There is no drinking after death.

Ben Jonson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ben Jonson
Age: 65 †
Born: 1572
Born: June 21
Died: 1637
Died: August 6
Actor
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
City of Westminster
Benjamin Jonson
Best
Sorrow
Drink
Tomorrow
Perhaps
Shall
Drown
Use
Breath
Death
Breaths
Today
Drinking

More quotes by Ben Jonson

Image
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
Ben Jonson
Image
I have no urns, no dusty monuments No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
Ben Jonson
Image
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
Ben Jonson
Image
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
Ben Jonson
Image
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
Ben Jonson
Image
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
Ben Jonson
Image
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
Ben Jonson
Image
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
Ben Jonson
Image
Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.
Ben Jonson
Image
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
Ben Jonson
Image
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
Ben Jonson
Image
Prevent your day at morning.
Ben Jonson
Image
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
Ben Jonson
Image
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
Ben Jonson
Image
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray prosperity never.
Ben Jonson
Image
Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
Ben Jonson
Image
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
Ben Jonson
Image
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant and of all tame a flatterer.
Ben Jonson
Image
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
Ben Jonson
Image
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Ben Jonson