Walter Raleigh World Quotations

It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

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

The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.