Quotes from Walter Raleigh

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

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.

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

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

And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

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.