black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Thomas More

Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
THOMAS MORE

Acceptance Challenge Life Modern Personal Social Soul
As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
THOMAS MORE

Friendship Garden Language Love Remember Run
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
THOMAS MORE

Gold Silver Use
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
THOMAS MORE

Cole Togetherness
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.
THOMAS MORE

Esteem Gold Value Wonder
Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
THOMAS MORE

Comfort Gentle Human
Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
THOMAS MORE

Greatness Mindset Peace Wealth
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
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
THOMAS MORE

Government Law Leadership
Friendship demands attention.
THOMAS MORE

Attention Demand Friendship
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
THOMAS MORE

Avoid Man Medicine Wisdom
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

Concern Garden Greatness Happiness Himself Store
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
THOMAS MORE

Ideas Man Oneself Rare
To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
THOMAS MORE

God Life Love Possible
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

Flower Scent Shower Walk
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
THOMAS MORE

Evil Goodness Need

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Thomas More Quotes