I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
THOMAS MORETo gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
More Thomas More Quotes
-
-
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 -
And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
THOMAS MORE -
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
THOMAS MORE -
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
THOMAS MORE -
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
THOMAS MORE -
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.
THOMAS MORE -
What is deferred is not avoided.
THOMAS MORE -
You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
THOMAS MORE -
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
THOMAS MORE -
The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
THOMAS MORE -
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
THOMAS MORE -
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
THOMAS MORE -
The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
THOMAS MORE -
Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
THOMAS MORE -
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
THOMAS MORE