Maxioms by George Chapman
To have a smattering knowledge of anything.
To have a smattering knowledge of anything.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Enough is as good as a feast.
As night the life-inclining stars best shows,
So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
As night the life-inclining stars best shows,
So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
Fortune, the great commandress of the world,
Hath divers ways to advance her followers:
To some she read more
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.
