Quotes by Thomas More

Thomas More

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

Character

May

Men

And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.

Filled

Light

Planets

And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.

Causes

Loss

Winning

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.

Caring

Roots

Running

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.

Advice

Choices

Food

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.

Dust

Men

Writing

He travels best that knows when to return.

Knows

Return

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.

Kings

Lions

Men

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

Honor

Ifs

Would Be

Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.

Mean

Punishment

Thieves

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Doctors

Dumb

Dust

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Enemy

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Filled

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Giving

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Good Man

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Quotes by Thomas More

Thomas More

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.

And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.

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.

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.

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.

He travels best that knows when to return.

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.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.

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