The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
THOMAS MOREThe most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
More Thomas More Quotes
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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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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Friendship demands attention.
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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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