black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

No more like together than is chalke to coles.

Thomas More

There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
THOMAS MORE

Moon Planet Religion Several Worship
You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
THOMAS MORE

Abandon Control Storm Wind
As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
THOMAS MORE

Friendship Garden Language Love Remember Run
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
THOMAS MORE

Destruction Evil Greed Justice
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
THOMAS MORE

Government Law Leadership
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
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
THOMAS MORE

Death Horrible Punishment Thief
The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
THOMAS MORE

Bad Goodness Live Man Time
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
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
THOMAS MORE

Disguise Law Profession
Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
THOMAS MORE

Acceptance Challenge Life Modern Personal Social Soul
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
THOMAS MORE

Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety
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
One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
THOMAS MORE

Deep Live Man Perspective Pleasure Wealth
Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
THOMAS MORE

Advantage Men Myself Name Rich Seek
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
THOMAS MORE

Gold Silver Use

No more like together than is chalke to coles.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

No more like together than is chalke to coles.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Thomas More Quotes