Walter Raleigh Quotes - Page 2

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.

What dependence can I have on the alleged events of ancient history, when I find such difficulty in ascertaining the truth regarding a matter that has taken place only a few minutes ago, and almost in my own presence!

The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.

If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things; first, they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will never last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in the end shall find itself unfortunate; for in all that ever I observed in the course of worldly things, I ever found that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues, and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby, also, than by their vices.

I dare not think that any supercelestial heaven, or whatsoever else ... was increate and eternal. And as for the place of God before the world created, the finite wisdom of mortal men hath no perception of it; neither can it limit the seat of infinite power, no more than infinite power itself can be limited; for his place is in himself, whom no magnitude else can contain.

Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust.

It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.

God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.