Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
- Ben Jonson
More Quotes By Ben Jonson
- A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night,
It was the plant...
- To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
- Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
- The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
- The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though...
- True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
- A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him...
- Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but...
- There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
- Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
- Princes that would their people should do well
Must at themselves begin, as at the head;
For men, by their...
- Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
- The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
- He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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