Ben Johnson

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

Talking is the disease of age.

— Ben Johnson

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

— Ben Johnson

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

— Ben Johnson

Force works on servile natures, not the free.

— Ben Johnson

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

— Ben Johnson

Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

— Ben Johnson

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

— Ben Johnson

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

— Ben Johnson

I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

— Ben Johnson

A good poet's made as well as born.

— Ben Johnson