black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Friendship demands attention.

Thomas More

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
THOMAS MORE

Business Chance Life Nature Ourselves
What is deferred is not avoided.
THOMAS MORE

Avoid One Liner
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
THOMAS MORE

Follow Light Literature Nature Planet
Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
THOMAS MORE

Goodness Heart Kindness Men Nature Obligation Strong Word
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
THOMAS MORE

Age Leave Love Rose Wine Youth
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
THOMAS MORE

Home People Rain Remedy Skin Street
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
THOMAS MORE

Disguise Lawyer People Profession
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
THOMAS MORE

Death Faith God Myself
Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
THOMAS MORE

Comfort Gentle Human
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
THOMAS MORE

Close Each Other Religion Sex
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
THOMAS MORE

Drowning Man One Liner
It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
THOMAS MORE

Act Enjoyment Humanity Oneself Pleasure Wrong
It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
THOMAS MORE

Cure Doctor Poor Yourself
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
THOMAS MORE

Avoid Man Medicine Wisdom
Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
THOMAS MORE

Education Flower Friendship Oneself Problem Small
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
THOMAS MORE

Happiness Live Possible

Friendship demands attention.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Friendship demands attention.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Thomas More Quotes