Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by John Marston

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English poet John Marston.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

John Marston was an English playwright, poet and satirist during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods. His career as a writer lasted only a decade. His work is remembered for its energetic and often obscure style, its contributions to the development of a distinctively Jacobean style in poetry, and its idiosyncratic vocabulary.

English - Poet | October 7, 1576 - June 25, 1634

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Through danger safety comes - through trouble rest.

John Marston

Wink and shut their apprehensions up.

John Marston

Men are born, and then they're formed.

John Marston

Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, one in all, and all in one.

John Marston

Don't be too eager to grow up. It ain't as much fun as it looks

John Marston

Looks like the good Lord got your ass and face mixed up.

John Marston

All the fatt's in the fire.

John Marston

If you win power, remember why you wanted it.

John Marston

We die alone, but we live among men.

John Marston

We all have problems, and we must solve them together or we die alone.

John Marston

I rode in a gang. We robbed trains, banks, held people ransom. We killed people we didn't like. Bill Williamson was in that gang. If I don't capture my former brother-in-arms, great harm will befall my family.

John Marston

I just know that there are two theories when arguing with women. And neither one works.

John Marston

People don't forget. Nothing gets forgiven.

John Marston

You couldn't shoot a fart out of your own ass!

John Marston

It's wanting that gets so many folks in trouble.

John Marston

Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.

John Marston

I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.

John Marston