He travels best that knows when to return.
THOMAS MOREFor 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.
More Thomas More Quotes
-
-
The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
THOMAS MORE -
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.
THOMAS MORE -
The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
THOMAS MORE -
Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
THOMAS MORE -
Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
THOMAS MORE -
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
THOMAS MORE -
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 demands attention.
THOMAS MORE -
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
THOMAS MORE -
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.
THOMAS MORE -
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 -
Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
THOMAS MORE -
Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
THOMAS MORE -
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
THOMAS MORE -
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