139 Quotes by Walter Raleigh

... but the longest day hath its evening.

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

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

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.

Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning; never sick, never old, never dead from itself never turning.

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.

If the heart be right, it matters not which way the head lies

Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.

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