Thomas More Quotes (50 Quotes)


    The way to heaven out of all places is of like length and distance.

    Is not this house the Tower of London as nigh heaven as my own

    Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

    The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.

    Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office my neck is very short take heed therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thine honesty.


    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.

    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.

    This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

    Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers, and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves.

    I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

    A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.

    . . . 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.


    There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

    My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

    See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

    Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

    Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

    And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras.

    He travels best that knows when to return.

    If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

    Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

    One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

    Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.

    As he drew his beard aside upon placing his head on the block This hath not offended the king.

    A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

    For this is one of the ancientest laws among them that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion.

    'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.

    The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.

    Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

    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.

    I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

    She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers are round her, sighing But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.

    An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

    Some worship such men as have been eminent in former times for virtue or glory, not only as ordinary deities, but as the supreme god.

    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.

    Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

    By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

    To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.

    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.

    They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

    An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love, and union with the world around us. As mystics of many religions have taught, that sense of rapturous union can give a

    Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power

    The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

    Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.

    I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.

    Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.

    What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.


    The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment ofwhich our human nature is capable.


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