139 Quotes by Walter Raleigh

In examinations, those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

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.

The difference between a rich man and a poor man, is this - the former eats hen when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it

The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth

I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!

Better it were not to live than to live a coward.

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.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.