Quote

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.

Philip Sidney

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
Military Personnel
Novelist
Poet
Politician
Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
Like
Ignorant
Nets
Sea
Twigs
Mark
Shipwreck
Laws
Passengers
Law
Marks
Rather
Guide
Lime
Everything
Catch
Limes
Made
Guides
Passenger

More quotes by Philip Sidney

Image
O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!
Philip Sidney
Image
Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
Philip Sidney
Image
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
Philip Sidney
Image
There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.
Philip Sidney
Image
Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.
Philip Sidney
Image
And thou my minde aspire to higher things Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
Philip Sidney
Image
It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
Philip Sidney
Image
A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.
Philip Sidney
Image
Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
Philip Sidney
Image
How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!
Philip Sidney
Image
The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.
Philip Sidney
Image
As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
Philip Sidney
Image
It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.
Philip Sidney
Image
A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
Philip Sidney
Image
Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.
Philip Sidney
Image
My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.
Philip Sidney
Image
A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
Philip Sidney
Image
Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.
Philip Sidney
Image
Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
Philip Sidney
Image
To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.
Philip Sidney