Ben Johnson Quotes

Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.

'Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.

Anything that enlarges the sphere of human powers and shows man he can do what he thought he could not do is valuable.

There be some men are born only to suck out the poison of books.

Cares that have entered once in the breast will have whole possession of the rest.

Those that merely talk and never think, that live in the wild anarchy of drink.

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.

A good poet's made as well as born.

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. - Every Man In His Humor.