According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in the end shall find itself unfortunate; for in all that ever I observed in the course of worldly things, I ever found that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues, and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby, also, than by their vices.
Walter RaleighRemember, 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.
Walter RaleighOur bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
Walter RaleighThe first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.
Walter Raleigh