Raleigh

Famous quotes containing the word raleigh:

    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.
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)

    If all the world and love were young,
    And truth in every shepherd’s tongue,
    These pretty pleasures might me move
    To live with thee and be thy Love.
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

    Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth.
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)