Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
THOMAS MOREGetting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
More Thomas More Quotes
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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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Friendship demands attention.
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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.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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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.
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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 wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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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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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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