Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Humphrey Gilbert

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English explorer Humphrey Gilbert.
Last updated on October 2, 2024.
Humphrey Gilbert

Sir Humphrey Gilbert was an English adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and was a pioneer of the English colonial empire in North America and the Plantations of Ireland. He was a maternal half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh and a cousin of Sir Richard Grenville.

These people are headstrong and if they feel the curb loosed but one link they will with bit in the teeth in one month run further out of the career of good order than they will be brought back in three months.
We are as near to heaven by sea as by land. — © Humphrey Gilbert
We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
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