Thomas More Quotes
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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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.
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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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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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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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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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You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.