Quotes
Quotes - Chapman
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
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.
Enough is as good as a feast.
'Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed.
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.
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.
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
His deeds inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.
There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.
I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. - Memories and Milestones.
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
As good as a play.
A nail in the wound.
To be praised by a man who has won his laurels.
