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.
THOMAS MOREAn absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
More Thomas More Quotes
-
-
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 -
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 -
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 -
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
THOMAS MORE -
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
THOMAS MORE -
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
THOMAS MORE -
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
THOMAS MORE -
Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
THOMAS MORE -
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
THOMAS MORE -
Friendship demands attention.
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 -
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
THOMAS MORE -
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
THOMAS MORE -
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
THOMAS MORE