Logo
Quote by George Chapman
And let a scholar all earths volumes carry, he will be but a walki

And let a scholar all earths volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. – George Chapman

Other quotes by George Chapman
Other Quotes from
Scholars, Scholarship
category

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a persons power. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

Category:
Scholars, Scholarship

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote… takes on the character of divine revelation. – Margaret Halsey

Category:
Scholars, Scholarship

A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. – James Russell Lowell

Category:
Scholars, Scholarship

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius

Category:
Scholars, Scholarship

Random Quotes

Todays Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. – Thurgood Marshall

Category:
Freedom

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it. – King Hussein I

Category:
Beauty

Its a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem. – Jerry Adler

Category:
Conservation