A Quote by Walter Raleigh

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Walter Raleigh

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Better Bred Ill Than Unborn Were

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Walter Raleigh
English - Explorer
1554 - October 29, 1618

The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to govern a wife and family, so, if thou stay long, thou shalt hardly see the education of thy children, who, being left to strangers, are in effect lost; and better were it to be unborn than ill-bred; for thereby thy posterity shall either perish, or remain a shame to thy name.

Walter Raleigh

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

Margaret Cavendish

Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]

George Herbert

It's an amazingly consistent thing with Irish people. We will talk to strangers at parties for hours. It's what we were bred to do I think. And the Jewish people were bred to write the stuff that we say.

Greg Fitzsimmons

Liberals are more upset when a tree is chopped down than when a child is aborted. Even if one rates an unborn child less than a full-blown person, doesn't the unborn child rate slightly higher than vegetation?

Ann Coulter

After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

William Shakespeare

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

Paul Gascoigne

It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them.