Walter Raleigh
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.Collection: History
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Sea
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.Collection: Vanity
It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.Collection: World
Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.Collection: Opportunity
Better it were not to live than to live a coward.Collection: Coward
To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.Collection: Worst
But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.Collection: Easter
But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.Collection: Love
The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.Collection: Teacher
[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.Collection: Mean
Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.Collection: Men
Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.Collection: Daughter
The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.Collection: World
Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.Collection: Evil
All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.Collection: Men
The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.Collection: Light
Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.Collection: Trust
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.Collection: Pain
So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.Collection: Heart
Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.Collection: Sea
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!Collection: Taken
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!Collection: Love
Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.Collection: Loss
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.Collection: Men
There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.Collection: Men
When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.Collection: Men
Bad language or abuse, I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though 'Bother it' I may Occasionally say, I never use a big, big D : What, never? : No, never! : What never? : Well, hardly ever! : Hardly ever swears a big, big D Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the well-bred Captain of the Pinafore!Collection: Cheer
The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!Collection: Kings
The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it; for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernal of the nut.Collection: Men
It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.Collection: Men
Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.Collection: Ambition
Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!Collection: Son
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.Collection: Hope
The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.Collection: War
Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.Collection: Romance
Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.Collection: Death
No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.Collection: Bears
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.Collection: Love
The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.Collection: War
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.Collection: Wine
Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.Collection: Trust
If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare; if he press thee further, he is not thy friend at all, for friendship rather chooseth harm to itself than offereth it. If thou be bound for a stranger, thou art a fool; if for a merchant, thou puttest thy estate to learn to swim.Collection: Art
But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.Collection: Eye
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.Collection: Wise