Quote

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Walter Raleigh

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
Explorer
Knight
Poet
Politician
Spy
Writer
East Budleigh
Devon
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Ralegh
Walter Ralegh
Walter
Sir Raleigh
World
Heavens
Subject
Subjects
Heaven
Change
Earth
Exempt
Nothing
Mutation
Whole
Peril

More quotes by Walter Raleigh

Image
Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover
Walter Raleigh
Image
Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
Walter Raleigh
Image
Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.
Walter Raleigh
Image
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
Walter Raleigh
Image
No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
Walter Raleigh
Image
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.
Walter Raleigh
Image
If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?
Walter Raleigh
Image
Better it were not to live than to live a coward.
Walter Raleigh
Image
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!
Walter Raleigh
Image
But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
Walter Raleigh
Image
A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!
Walter Raleigh
Image
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.
Walter Raleigh
Image
Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.
Walter Raleigh
Image
Trust few men above all, keep your follies to yourself.
Walter Raleigh
Image
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!
Walter Raleigh
Image
So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
Walter Raleigh
Image
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.
Walter Raleigh
Image
It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.
Walter Raleigh
Image
I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.
Walter Raleigh
Image
What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.
Walter Raleigh