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Quotes by George Chapman
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. Attributed to CATO by BACON- Apothegms. No. 247. He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make him greatest and not best.— filed under Action
Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.— filed under Advice
Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare.— filed under Beauty
His deedes inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.— filed under Deeds
So our lives In acts exemplarie, not only winne Ourselves good Names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous Deedes, by which wee live.— filed under Deeds
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.— filed under Gain
I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun, Causing a spring of virtues where he shines.— filed under Love
None ever loved, but at first sight they loved.— filed under Love
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, souls disclose. So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.— filed under Obscurity
Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.— filed under December
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed.— filed under Occupations-Law
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.— filed under Passion
Promise is most given when the least is said.— filed under Promises
Subsec. II. Enough is as good as a feast.— filed under Proverbs
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.— filed under Proverbs
Subsec. I. Make ducks and drakes with shillings. cc.— filed under Proverbs
France. Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err. bb.— filed under Virtue
Words writ in waters.— filed under Words
Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself.— filed under Work
Pansies. I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.— filed under Flowers-Pansy
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.— filed under Folly
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.— filed under Fortune
'Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.— filed under Immortality
Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.— filed under Murder
Storm. And as great seamen, using all their wealth And skills in Neptune's deep invisible paths, In tall ships richly built and ribbed with brass, To put a girdle round about the world.— filed under Occupations-Navigation
They're only truly great who are truly good.— filed under Proverbs
To put a girdle round about the world.— filed under Proverbs
Archers ever Have two strings to a bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?— filed under Chase, The