Walter Raleigh Quotes

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

The first three years was our honeymoon period. Then you settle into the relationship, and it morphs into just living, breathing. It becomes more comfortable, but it becomes a necessity - something you can't give up, like an addict.

I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day!

The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]

Because I’ve had a taste and I’m not sharing. This isn’t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.

I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday.

I feel bad for people who have never been addicted to anything, because they're the real losers. You want to know why? Because they don't know what it's like to really want something - and then get it again and again and again.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.

Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert.

Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In Washington power is like morphine.

I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.

Once you start watching a television show that you love you can't stop watching it.

It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.

A rotten case abides no handling.

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.