Oh! blame not the bard.
THOMAS MOREA pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
More Thomas More Quotes
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Friendship demands attention.
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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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.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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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.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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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.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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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.
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There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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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.
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