Ben Jonson
English playwright and poet
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
—Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter, 1640
Posted on September 23, 2000 at 9:16 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
A man coins not a new word without some peril and less fruit; for if it happen to be received, the praise is but moderate; if refused, the scorn is assured.
—Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter, 1640
Posted on January 16, 2001 at 10:28 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Give 'em words;
Pour oil into their ears and send them hence.
—Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, Volpone, 1606
Posted on May 26, 1998 at 7:36 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
In all speech, words and sense are as the body and the soul. The sense is as the life and soul of language, without which all words are dead.
—Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, Discoveries made upon Men and Matter, 1640
Posted on August 25, 1999 at 10:10 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Talking is the disease of age.
—Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter, 1640
Posted on October 3, 2002 at 10:19 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.
—Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter, 1640
Posted on August 11, 2003 at 10:26 PM
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