George Chapman Quotes
"Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel."
- George Chapman
(Related: Man, Value, Woman)
"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools."
- George Chapman
(Related: Men, Fools, Old)
"Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed."
- George Chapman
(Related: Law)
"We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of."
- George Chapman
(Related: Actions, Nothing)
"They're only truly great who are truly good."
- George Chapman
"Promise is most given when the least is said."
- George Chapman
(Related: Promise)
"Ignorance is the mother of admiration."
- George Chapman
(Related: Mother, Admiration, Ignorance)
"For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still."
- George Chapman
(Related: Passion)
"Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs."
- George Chapman
(Related: Dogs, Friends)
"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
(Related: Love, Chastity, Extreme, Extremes, Hatred)
"Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height."
- George Chapman
(Related: Greatness, Spirits)
"And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock."
- George Chapman
(Related: Earth, Walking, Will)
"An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion."
- George Chapman
(Related: Being)
"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."
- George Chapman
(Related: Advice, Want)
"Pure innovation is more gross than error."
- George Chapman
(Related: Error, Innovation)
"He that shuns trifles must shun the world."
- George Chapman
(Related: Trifles, World)