Creative Quotations from Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Philip Sidney
(1554-1586) born on Nov 30

English "courtier, statesman". "He was an Elizabethan courtier, statesman, soldier, poet, and patron of scholars and poets, considered the ideal gentleman of his day."

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

"With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner."

"It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened."

"Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
R:	"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
A:	""Defence of Poesie," written 1579-80; published 1595."
N:	"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
K:	"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."