Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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
Men
Offices
Gifts
Office
Wise
Rich
Rather
Bribes
Given
Bribe
Reason
Executed
More quotes by Thomas More
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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
Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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
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
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
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
Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
Thomas More
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
Thomas More
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
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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
He travels best that knows when to return.
Thomas More
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
Thomas More
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
Thomas More
Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
Thomas More
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
Thomas More
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
Thomas More
