Sir Walter Raleigh

(228 votes)   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.

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(171 votes)   No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(162 votes)   Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(147 votes)   Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(120 votes)   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.

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(116 votes)   Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(113 votes)   Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(104 votes)   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.

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

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

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(96 votes)   No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(93 votes)   Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(89 votes)   Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

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

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

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

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(76 votes)   All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website