George Chapman Quotes

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.

Love is Natures second sun.

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

Fate's such a shrewish thing.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

An ill weed grows apace.

As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself.

News as wholesome as the morning air.

Words writ in waters.

He is at no end of his actions blestWhose ends will make him greatest, and not best.

Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?

Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.

Make ducks and drakes with shillings.

Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

Who to himself is law no law doth need; offends none and is king indeed.

Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.

Enough 's as good as a feast.

So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

Tis immortality to die aspiring.

Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.

There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.

Love is nature's second son.

Flatterers look like friends as wolves like dogs.

You men think old men are fools but old men know young men are the fools.