Quote #3
True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice.
More from Ben Jonson
- Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears: Yet, slower, yet; O faintly, gentle springs: List to the heavy part the music bears,…
- Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entrea…
- Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
- That old bald cheater, Time.
- Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.
- Calumnies are answered best with silence.
- You that would last long, list to my song, Make no more coil, but buy of this oil. Would you be ever fair and young? Stout of teeth and str…
- Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.