24 Quotations by Sir Walter Raleigh
- 1. All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of eve ...

- 2. All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe ...

- 3. Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, ...

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

- 5. But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wo ...

- 6. Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

- 7. He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather ...

- 8. Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say any ...

- 9. I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

- 10. I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wis ...

- 11. It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to end ...

- 12. No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

- 13. No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

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

- 15. O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dare ...

- 16. Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will n ...

- 17. Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance ...

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

- 19. The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

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

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