Philip Sidney Quotes
English - Soldier November 30, 1554 - October 17, 1586
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
Philip Sidney
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
Philip Sidney
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
Philip Sidney
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
Philip Sidney
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
Philip Sidney
If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.
Philip Sidney
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
Philip Sidney
Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.
Philip Sidney
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
Philip Sidney
The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth.
Philip Sidney
For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught.
Philip Sidney
Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
Philip Sidney
Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.
Philip Sidney
Jonathan Swift Quotes
Irish - Writer November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Jonathan Swift
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
Jonathan Swift
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Jonathan Swift
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Jonathan Swift
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
Jonathan Swift
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Jonathan Swift
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
Jonathan Swift
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan Swift
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Jonathan Swift
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
Jonathan Swift
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
Jonathan Swift
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
Jonathan Swift
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Jonathan Swift
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Jonathan Swift
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Jonathan Swift
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan Swift
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Jonathan Swift
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Jonathan Swift
Books, the children of the brain.
Jonathan Swift
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
Jonathan Swift
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
Jonathan Swift
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Jonathan Swift
My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
Jonathan Swift
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Jonathan Swift
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
Jonathan Swift
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
Jonathan Swift
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift
Observation is an old man's memory.
Jonathan Swift
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Jonathan Swift
The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Jonathan Swift
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
Jonathan Swift
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Jonathan Swift
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
Jonathan Swift
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
Jonathan Swift
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Jonathan Swift
Every dog must have his day.
Jonathan Swift
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Jonathan Swift
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Jonathan Swift
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
Jonathan Swift
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Jonathan Swift
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
Jonathan Swift
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Jonathan Swift
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Jonathan Swift
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Jonathan Swift
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Jonathan Swift
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Jonathan Swift
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Jonathan Swift
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Jonathan Swift
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Jonathan Swift
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Jonathan Swift
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
Jonathan Swift
He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
Jonathan Swift
Don't set your wit against a child.
Jonathan Swift
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Jonathan Swift
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Jonathan Swift
Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
Jonathan Swift
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