Thomas More Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Tomás Moro

  Educación, Aprendizaje, Hombres

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• The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.

  Tomás Moro

  Looks, May, Masters

  Niccolo Machiavelli, Sir Thomas More, Sir (2010). “Machiavelli, More & Luther”, p.105, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

  Tomás Moro

  Men, Vanity, Invention

  Thomas More (1997). “Utopia”, p.29, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.

  Tomás Moro

  Men, Dying, Thieves

  Thomas More (2013). “Utopia”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.

  Tomás Moro

  Art, War, Crooks

  1516 Utopia (English translation1556), bk.1.

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• 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.

  Tomás Moro

  Loss, Winning, Causes

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• Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.

  Tomás Moro

  Wisdom, Father, Party

  In William Roper 'The Life of Sir Thomas More'

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• En cuanto al romero, lo dejo correr por todos los muros de mi jardín, no sólo porque a mis abejas les encanta, sino porque es la hierba sagrada del recuerdo y de la amistad, de donde una ramita suya tiene un lenguaje mudo.

  Tomás Moro

  Running, Wall, Garden

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• 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.

  Tomás Moro

  Writing, Men, Dust

  Thomas More (2005). “The History of King Richard the Third: A Reading Edition”, p.67, Indiana University Press

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• No more like together than is chalke to coles.

  Tomás Moro

  Together, Comparison

  "Works", (p. 674) in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 125-127), 1922.

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• No culpes al bardo.

  Tomás Moro

  Blame, Bards

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

  Tomás Moro

  Poetry, Reason, Rhyme

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 602-605), 1922.

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

  Tomás Moro

  Light, Planets, Filled

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• 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.

  Tomás Moro

  Moon, Islands, Different

  Thomas More, Sir Saint (2008). “Utopia: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.152, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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.

  Tomás Moro

  Hombres, justicia, diversidad

  Thomas More (2010). “Utopia”, p.74, Bibliolis Books

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• 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.

  Tomás Moro

  Rain, People, House

  Thomas More (1997). “Utopia”, p.53, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

  Tomás Moro

  Fear, Men, Use

  Thomas More (1737). “Utopia”, p.119

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• . . . 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.

  Tomás Moro

  Men, Might, States

  Saint Thomas More (2005). “The History of King Richard III”, Hesperus Press

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