Walter Raleigh

"Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection."

"If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherds tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy Love.But fading flowers in every field, To winter floods their treasures yield; A honeyd tongue, a heart of gall, Is Fancys spring, but Sorrows fall."

"Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred."

"Our passions are most like to floods and streams; The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb."

"There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation."

"Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!"

"Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth."

"Remember...that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will never last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all, for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied."

"Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish."

"Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds."

"War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory and good fortune."

"No man is wise or safe, but he that is honest."