walter-raleigh Quotes About 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.”

Men Littles Done Plans Honest Duty Capacity Innocent Employment Engaged Enjoyment Mature Policemen Honest Man Felons

Author:Walter Raleigh

“Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.”

Men Every Man Estates Borrowing

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch

“I dare not think that any supercelestial heaven, or whatsoever else ... was increate and eternal. And as for the place of God before the world created, the finite wisdom of mortal men hath no perception of it; neither can it limit the seat of infinite power, no more than infinite power itself can be limited; for his place is in himself, whom no magnitude else can contain.”

Thinking Men World Heaven Limits Eternal Perception Infinite Dare Mortals Seats Finite Magnitude Infinite Power

Book:The History of the World in Five Books

Source: The History of the World in Five Books

“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.”

Men Sin Subjects Vices Delight Vanity Shakes Drunkenness Drunkards

Author:Walter Raleigh

“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.”

Men Body Spirit Tree Subjects Delight Nuts Worms Drunkenness Ivy Old Trees

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works

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

Men Differences Poor Rich Please Eating Former Latter Rich Man Poor Man

Author:Walter Raleigh

“It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home; and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.”

Men War Home Fighting Found Ambition Stability Decline Quarrels

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works

“Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.”

Men Praise Flattery

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., Now First Collected: Miscellaneous works

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., Now First Collected: Miscellaneous works

“Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.”

Men Made Death And Love

Book:The history of the world

Source: The history of the world

“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.”

Men God Found Understanding Sober Everlasting Irresistible Apprehension Inspection True God Pensive

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the world

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the world

“It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.”

Ifs Men Would Be Wise Honest Honesty Safe Advantage Unspeakable

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works

“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.”

Men World Matter Reason Study Errors Appearance Probability Publish Contention Sophistry

Book:The history of the world

Source: The history of the world

“According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in the end shall find itself unfortunate; for in all that ever I observed in the course of worldly things, I ever found that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues, and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby, also, than by their vices.”

Men Made Ends Courses Found Virtue Speech Fortune Vices Tongue Life And Death Unfortunate Worldly Solomon Worldly Things

Book:Miscellaneous works

Source: Miscellaneous works

“Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.”

Men World Pain Talking Tongue

Author:Walter Raleigh

“It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.”

Men Made Courses Virtue Fortune Vices Tongue Worldly Worldly Things

Author:Walter Raleigh

“Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.”

Men Trust Folly Self Trust

Author:Walter Raleigh

“The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.”

Men May War Body

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh

“Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.”

Ifs Men Giving Made Desire All Things Presses Burden Ass Thee Spares

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works

“All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.”

Men Evil Occasions

Book:Miscellaneous works

Source: Miscellaneous works

“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.”

Men Want Mean Facts Names Force Poverty Power Honest Riches Wit Cruelty Crafts Fraud Servitude

Author:Walter Raleigh

“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.”

Thinking Men Love Writing May Action Opportunity Simple Ought Hatred Historian Say Anything Simple Truths

Book:Miscellaneous works

Source: Miscellaneous works

“There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.”

Men Art Choices Friendship Wise Becoming Gains Election Thee Judged Virtuous Inferiors Being Wise

Book:Miscellaneous works

Source: Miscellaneous works

“O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!”

Men World Two Done Together Death Dying Greatness Pride Ambition Casts Cruelty Covered Advise Despised Eloquent Flattered Drawn Together

Book:The History of the World: In Five Books. Viz. Treating of the Beginning and First Ages of Same from the Creation Unto Abraham. Of the Birth of Abraham to the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Time of Philip of Macedon. From the Reign of Philip of Macedon to the Establishing of that Kingdom in the Race of Antigonus. From Settled Rule of Alexander's Successors in the East Until the Romans (prevailing Over All) Made Conquest of Asia and Macedon

Source: The History of the World: In Five Books. Viz. Treating of the Beginning and First Ages of Same from the Creation Unto Abraham. Of the Birth of Abraham to the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Time of Philip of Macedon. From the Reign of Philip of Macedon to the Establishing of that Kingdom in the Race of Antigonus. From Settled Rule of Alexander's Successors in the East Until the Romans (prevailing Over All) Made Conquest of Asia and Macedon

“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.”

Men Mean Long Running Force Nature Forget Virtue Endure Extremes Nature Of Man

Book:Miscellaneous works

Source: Miscellaneous works

“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.”

Men Done Evil Perfect Ought Integrity Preservation Sincerely Peril

Author:Walter Raleigh

“No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.”

Men Women Fool Men Women Garments Colorful

Author:Walter Raleigh

“Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.”

Men States Shows Hands Government Evil Ought Occasions