George Chapman famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Lambs #Lions #Englishmen
Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
-- George Chapman

#Hatred #Doe #Too Much
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
-- George Chapman

#Walking Away #Earth #Clock
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
-- George Chapman

#Inspirational #Greatness #Height
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
-- George Chapman

#Passion #Heat #Stills
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
-- George Chapman

#Our Actions #Action #Worthy
The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.
-- George Chapman

#Way #Accomplish #Best Way
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.
-- George Chapman

#Song #Courage #Yield
The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.
-- George Chapman

#Failure #Responsibility #Order
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
-- George Chapman

#Funny #Friendship #Dog
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
-- George Chapman

#Men #Thinking #Age
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.
-- George Chapman

#Life #Running #Wind
Love is Natures second sun.
-- George Chapman

#Love #Love Is #Sun
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.
-- George Chapman

#Wise #Business #Light
Danger, the spur of all great minds.
-- George Chapman

#Mind #Spurs #Great Minds
Tis immortality to die aspiring.
-- George Chapman

#Ambition #Immortality #Dies
Fair words never hurt the tongue.
-- George Chapman

#Hurt #Tongue #Fairness
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.
-- George Chapman

#Men #Her Beauty #Littles
Promise is most given when the least is said.
-- George Chapman

#Keeping Promises #Kept Promises #Said
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
-- George Chapman

#Pride #Shame
Fate's such a shrewish thing.
-- George Chapman

#Fate
There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.
-- George Chapman

#Opportunity #Men #Wheels
They're only truly great who are truly good.
-- George Chapman

#Kindness #Greatness #Spirituality
An ill weed grows apace.
-- George Chapman

#Weed #Ill #Grows
Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.
-- George Chapman

#Men
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
-- George Chapman

#Men #Virtuous Woman #Virtuous
Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.
-- George Chapman

#Giving #Honor #Way
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
-- George Chapman

#Mother #Ignorance #Definitions
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
-- George Chapman

#Stars #Night #Soul

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