1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
Ben Johnson – [Music]
A good poet's made as well as born.
Ben Johnson – [Poetry and Poets]
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
Ben Johnson – [Suspicion]
All concord's born of contraries.
Ben Johnson – [Contradiction]
Art has an enemy called ignorance.
Ben Johnson – [Arts and Artists]
Blueness doth express trueness.
Ben Johnson – [Color]
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
Ben Johnson – [Anxiety]
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
Ben Johnson – [Force]
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
Ben Johnson – [Adversity]
He threatens many that hath injured one.
Ben Johnson – [Crime and Criminals]
I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
Ben Johnson – [Newspapers]
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
Ben Johnson – [Illness]
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
Ben Johnson – [Language]
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 Johnson – [Advice]
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
Ben Johnson – [Time and Time Management]
Talking is the disease of age.
Ben Johnson – [Age and Aging]
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
Ben Johnson – [Money]
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Ben Johnson – [Hell]
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
Ben Johnson – [Horses]
They that know no evil will suspect none.
Ben Johnson – [Evil]