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 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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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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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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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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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.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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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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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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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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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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