Quote

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

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
Fool
Religious
Religion
Makes
Men
Fools
Excellent

More quotes by Ben Jonson

Image
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
Ben Jonson
Image
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
Ben Jonson
Image
The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
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
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
Ben Jonson
Image
Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
Ben Jonson
Image
Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us but they know it not.
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
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
Ben Jonson
Image
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
Ben Jonson
Image
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
Ben Jonson
Image
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
Ben Jonson
Image
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
Ben Jonson
Image
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
Ben Jonson
Image
I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
Ben Jonson
Image
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
Ben Jonson
Image
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
Ben Jonson
Image
A good life is a main argument.
Ben Jonson