Quotes11 Jun HB Ben Jonson 11 Jun 1572

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 Jonson

Calumnies are answered best with silence. Ben Jonson

I have betrayed myself with my own tongue; The case is altered. Ben Jonson

Language most shewes a man: speake that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired, and inmost parts of us, and is the Image of the Parent of it, the mind. No glasse renders a mans forme, or likenesse, so true as his speech. - Ben Jonson "Oratio Imago Animi"

He was not of an age, but for all time.
Ben Jonson, To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr William Shakespeare.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. --Ben Jonson (1572-1637) In "Wisdom of the Ages at Your Fingertips," MCR software, 1995.

A good life is a maine Argument.

Ben Jonson_Timber: or, Discoveries, made vpon men and matter: as they have flow'd out of his daily Readings ; or had their refluxe to his peculiar Notion of the Times_, 1640 Discoveries, Topic 17, "Probitas. sapientia." ("Honesty and Wisdom")