13+ Ben Johnson Quotes On Shakespeare

Ben Johnson is a Canadian former sprinter. He won three Olympic gold medals and set world records in the 100-meter and 200-meter races. He was stripped of his medals and records after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 1988. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Ben Johnson on shakespeare.

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

Art has an enemy called ignorance. — Ben Johnson

Force works on servile natures, not the free. — Ben Johnson

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

Talking is the disease of age. — Ben Johnson

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

A good poet's made as well as born. — Ben Johnson

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

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

Have you seen but a bright lily grow,Before rude hands have touched it?Have you marked but the fall o' the snowBefore the soil hath smutched it?...O so white! O so soft! O so sweet is she! — Ben Johnson

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

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. — Ben Johnson