Walter Raleigh Quotes

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

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.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

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!

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.

Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.

Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.

The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.

Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.

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

Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!

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

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

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

If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?

Better it were not to live than to live a coward.

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.

'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.

In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.

Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.

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

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.

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

No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

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

Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.

A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!