Quotes by George Chapman
Promise is most given when the least is said.
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.
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
I am ashamed the law is such an ass.
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
Pure innovation is more gross than error.
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
The young always have the same problem- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
They're only truly great who are truly good.
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
