Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
Thomas More
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
Diplomat
Historian
Judge
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Saint
Statesperson
Theologian
London
England
Sir Thomas More
Saint Thomas More
Thomas Morus
Thomas
Saint More
Thomas
Sir More
Everybody
Would
Profitable
Honorable
Honor
More quotes by Thomas More
. . . 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
The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
Thomas More
I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
Thomas More
They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens everye man or his owne parte.
Thomas More
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.
Thomas More
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
Thomas More
The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.
Thomas More
Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
Thomas More
Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
Thomas More
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.
Thomas More
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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
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.
Thomas More
Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
Thomas More
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
I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
Thomas More
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.
Thomas More
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
Thomas More
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.
Thomas More
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
Thomas More
