Walter Raleigh
Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleighwas an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer. He was cousin to Sir Richard Grenville and younger half-brother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth22 January 1552
lying gains deceit
The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth.
pain evil silence
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.
daughter prevention prudence
Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.
time evening
... but the longest day hath its evening.
medicine physicians disease
This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
men firsts bears
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.
spring flower fall
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.
love romantic wedding
But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
hatred affection
Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
love fun silly
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!
light brain shut-up
I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.
memories years desire
Remember, that if thou 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; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
mean power men
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.
mean tyrants people
[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.