Thomas More Quotes
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On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' To the executioner: 'Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thyne office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thyne honesty.'
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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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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I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
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The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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 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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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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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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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It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.