Philip Sidney
Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.Collection: Practice
It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.Collection: Reading
Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.Collection: Guests
Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.Collection: Laughter
A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.Collection: Tyrants
As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.Collection: Giving
High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.Collection: Pain
Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.Collection: Hate
The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.Collection: Forgiveness
O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!Collection: Sweet
Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.Collection: Men
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.Collection: Fear
It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.Collection: Happiness
He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.Collection: Passion
Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.Collection: Doubt
There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.Collection: Evil
Thinking nurseth thinking.Collection: Thinking
In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.Collection: Comfort
He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.Collection: Love
Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.Collection: Love
Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.Collection: Moon
Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.Collection: Sports
Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.Collection: Sea
To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.Collection: Death
Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.Collection: Beauty
Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty.Collection: Heart
Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.Collection: Foundation
Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims.Collection: Sweet
Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.Collection: Patience
The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?Collection: May
I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.Collection: Likes
As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.Collection: Heaven
**Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???** Oh My Angel I doooo....A KISS is the beginning of, middle to, and end of most things I love about life.Collection: Angel
My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.Collection: Issues
What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.Collection: Wisdom
Vice is but a nurse of agonies.Collection: Agony
Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.Collection: Judging
Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely; her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.Collection: Sweet
What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!Collection: Secret
There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.Collection: Fear
Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error.Collection: Men
Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.Collection: Reason
For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.Collection: Mind
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.Collection: Confusion
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.Collection: Judging
Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.Collection: Friendship
We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.Collection: Virtue
Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.Collection: Poison