Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain main; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney
Thinking nurseth thinking.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney
If I could think how these my thoughts to leave,
Or thinking still, my thoughts might have good end:
If rebel sense would reason's law receive;
Or reason foil'd would not in vain contend:
Then might I think what thoughts were best to think:
Then might I wisely swim, or gladly sink.
PHILIP SIDNEY, sonnet
He travels safe, and not unpleasantly, who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
PHILIP SIDNEY, Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
What can saying make those believe whom seeing cannot persuade.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, attributed, Day's Collacon
The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.
PHILIP SIDNEY, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, attributed, Day's Collacon
Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity the victorious rebel of all laws.
PHILIP SIDNEY, Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney
How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments.
PHILIP SIDNEY, attributed, Day's Collacon
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.
