Ben Johnson
"He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity"
"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"
"A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house"
"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine"
"Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment"
"Art hath an enemy called Ignorance."
"Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue"
"They that know no evil will suspect none."
"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."
"Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."
"Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee."
"Talking is the disease of age."
"Weigh the meaning and look not at the words."
"Confound these ancestors... they've stolen our best ideas!"
"Blueness doth express trueness."
"I have been at my book, and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation."
"Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest."
"There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear."
"Force works on servile natures, not the free."
"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.