black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

Thomas More

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
Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
THOMAS MORE

Bright Fortune Happiness Pride Shine Thinking
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
THOMAS MORE

Myself Safety
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
THOMAS MORE

Death Faith God Myself
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

Myself Occasion Punishment Religion
What is deferred is not avoided.
THOMAS MORE

Avoid One Liner
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
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.
THOMAS MORE

Himself Love Man Natural Thinking
Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
THOMAS MORE

Hands Marriage Oneself
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.
THOMAS MORE

Capability Compassion Creature Feeling Human Nature
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
THOMAS MORE

Law Myself Protection Reason
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 MORE

Home People Rain Remedy Skin Street
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
THOMAS MORE

Age Leave Love Rose Wine Youth
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.
THOMAS MORE

Himself Man State Trust
Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
THOMAS MORE

Campaign Hold Office

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Thomas More Quotes