I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
THOMAS MOREI’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
More Thomas More Quotes
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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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To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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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.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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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.
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Friendship demands attention.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
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Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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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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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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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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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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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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