black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.

Thomas More

You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
THOMAS MORE

Abandon Control Storm Wind
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
THOMAS MORE

Distance Heaven Place
Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
THOMAS MORE

Happiness Humor Life Share
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

Loss Ourselves Reason Thankful Win
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
THOMAS MORE

Death Heaven Journey
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
THOMAS MORE

Himself Love Man Natural Thinking
He travels best that knows when to return.
THOMAS MORE

Himself Return Travel
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.
THOMAS MORE

Gold Substance Understand Value
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.
THOMAS MORE

Goodness Man Writing
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
THOMAS MORE

Creature Fear Live Yourself
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
THOMAS MORE

Best Play Yourself
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
THOMAS MORE

Follow Light Literature Nature Planet
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
THOMAS MORE

Gold Silver Use
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.
THOMAS MORE

Himself Man State Trust
Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
THOMAS MORE

Hands Marriage Oneself
The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
THOMAS MORE

Forget Heart Love True

They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Thomas More Quotes