Quote

You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.

Philip Massinger

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Philip Massinger
Age: 57 †
Born: 1583
Born: January 1
Died: 1640
Died: January 1
Dramatist
Playwright
Writer
Salisbury
England
Philip Massinger
Grain
Sand
Counsels
Failure
Plough
Trust
Sands
Religious
Boldly
May
Fruitful
Ungrateful
Barren

More quotes by Philip Massinger

Image
He is not valiant that dares lie but he that boldly bears calamity.
Philip Massinger
Image
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
Philip Massinger
Image
Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.
Philip Massinger
Image
Gold--the picklock that never fails.
Philip Massinger
Image
What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!
Philip Massinger
Image
To doubt is worse than to have lost And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
Philip Massinger
Image
Malice scorned, puts out itself but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
Philip Massinger
Image
And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife.
Philip Massinger
Image
Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.
Philip Massinger
Image
Man was mark'd A friend in his creation to himself, And may, with fit ambition, conceive The greatest blessings, and the highest honors Appointed for him, if he can achieve them The right and noble way.
Philip Massinger
Image
They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.
Philip Massinger
Image
My dancing days are past.
Philip Massinger
Image
Black detraction will find faults where they are not.
Philip Massinger
Image
Shall this nectar Run useless, then, to waste? or ... these lips, That open like the morn, breathing perfumes, On such as dare approach them, be untouch'd? They must--nay, 'tis in vain to make resistance-- Be often kissed and tasted.
Philip Massinger
Image
Be wise soar not too high to fall but stoop to rise.
Philip Massinger
Image
He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful
Philip Massinger
Image
Nay, droop not, fellows innocence should be bold.
Philip Massinger
Image
He that knows no guilt can know no fear.
Philip Massinger
Image
Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.
Philip Massinger
Image
Quiet night, that brings Best to the labourer, is the outlaw's day, In which he rises early to do wrong, And when his work is ended dares not sleep.
Philip Massinger