Some Funny and Interesting Quotations by George Chapman.
An Englishman, / Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
They can’t all happen at once, so, it’s a matter of what goes first, what will create the most momentum for the most investment. And we think one of these two can do that.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
We just ask people for money.
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
We’ve spent $300,000 and it doesn’t look much different.
They’re only truly great who are truly good.
We enjoyed a record year.
Pure innovation is more gross than error.
Second-half growth is not expected to be as difficult to obtain.
As soon as you’re here in front of those race cars, … everything else kind of goes away.
I am ashamed the law is such an ass.
We have plenty of capital.
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman’s counsel.
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
Danger, the spur of all great minds.
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.
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
Give me a spirit that on this life’s rough sea Loves to have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air
An Englishman, / Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
And my favorite Quote by George Chapman:
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman’s counsel.
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