George Chapman
They're only truly great who are truly good.Collection: Good
The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.Collection: Failure
The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.Collection: Way
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.Collection: Men
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Song
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.Collection: Lambs
Fair words never hurt the tongue.Collection: Hurt
Tis immortality to die aspiring.Collection: Ambition
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.Collection: Life
Love is Natures second sun.Collection: Love
Promise is most given when the least is said.Collection: Keeping Promises
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.Collection: Pride
Danger, the spur of all great minds.Collection: Mind
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.Collection: Men
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.Collection: Our Actions
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.Collection: Wise
Fate's such a shrewish thing.Collection: Fate
An ill weed grows apace.Collection: Weed
There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.Collection: Opportunity
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.Collection: Stars
Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.Collection: Men
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.Collection: Men
Who to himself is law no law doth need; offends none and is king indeed.Collection: Kings
Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.Collection: Taken
He that shuns trifles must shun the world.Collection: World
News as wholesome as the morning air.Collection: Morning
Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.Collection: Perfect
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.Collection: Hatred
Enough 's as good as a feast.Collection: Enough
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.Collection: Mother
Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.Collection: Meaning Something
Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself.Collection: Inspirational
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.Collection: Men
Pure innovation is more gross than error.Collection: Fear
I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.Collection: Flower
So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.Collection: Life
Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.Collection: Eye
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.Collection: Passion
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.Collection: Walking Away
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.Collection: Money
Words writ in waters.Collection: Water
Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.Collection: Sleep
And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth? Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy.Collection: Soul
Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.Collection: Dream
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.Collection: Inspirational
He is at no end of his actions blestWhose ends will make him greatest, and not best.Collection: Action