Thomas More
Thomas More
Sir Thomas More, venerated by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was also a councillor to Henry VIII, and Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to 16 May 1532...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth7 February 1478
Thomas More quotes about
problem educated our-time
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
carpe-diem play make-the-best-of-it
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
witty sex humorous
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
hero pride common-sense
If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes.
humanity gains add
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.
justice influence goodness
The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
time real thinking
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.
honor would-be ifs
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
encouragement giving grace
The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
emotional individuality symptoms
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
flower wine age-love
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine
avoided
What is deferred is not avoided.
rain people house
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.
heaven
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.