You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back. Ben Jonson More Quotes by Ben Jonson More Quotes From Ben Jonson The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade. Ben Jonson honesty men two Prevent your day at morning. Ben Jonson morning Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you. Ben Jonson mistress court deny Still may syllables jar with time, Ben Jonson poetry may war Our whole life is like a play. Ben Jonson whole play life Guilt's a terrible thing. Ben Jonson terrible-things terrible guilt A good king is a public servant. Ben Jonson good-kings servant kings Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit. Ben Jonson ancient silent heaven In the hope to meet Ben Jonson missing-you i-miss-you love Poets are far rarer birds than kings. Ben Jonson poet kings bird 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 popularity slave men How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them! Ben Jonson practise fortune sports Nothing is more short-lived than pride. Ben Jonson short-lived pride No simple word Ben Jonson regret simple morning 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 winning past years 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 horse rivers wind No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech. Ben Jonson speech glasses men For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much. Ben Jonson sake may love Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star. Ben Jonson stars love fall Peace is never more than one thought away. Ben Jonson harmony peace
