Walter Raleigh May Quotations

Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!

No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.

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

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.

The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.

Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.

In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.