Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Man is a torch borne in the wind a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.
George Chapman
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
George Chapman
Age: 75 †
Born: 1559
Born: January 1
Died: 1634
Died: May 12
Dramatist
Linguist
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Herts
Torches
Borne
Substance
Shadow
Wind
Dream
Men
Summed
Torch
More quotes by George Chapman
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
George Chapman
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.
George Chapman
They're only truly great who are truly good.
George Chapman
The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.
George Chapman
Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.
George Chapman
Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.
George Chapman
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
George Chapman
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
George Chapman
There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.
George Chapman
Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
George Chapman
Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself.
George Chapman
Promise is most given when the least is said.
George Chapman
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
George Chapman
He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
George Chapman
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
George Chapman
Virtue is not malicious wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.
George Chapman
Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.
George Chapman
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
George Chapman
He is at no end of his actions blestWhose ends will make him greatest, and not best.
George Chapman
Love is Natures second sun.
George Chapman
