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
pain men talking
Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
medicine cures
'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
loss men damage
Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
history ends valour
Let valour end my life!
witty love-is silence
Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.
friendship feelings desire
In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.
beer firsts madness
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.
grieving use may
Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
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.
beauty years lasts
If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.
death men and-love
Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
god causes good-god
God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.
kings pirate glorious
It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.
cousin queens aunt
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!