A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him. Thomas More More Quotes by Thomas More More Quotes From Thomas More The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance. Thomas More distanceheavenway 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. Thomas More causeswinningloss A drowning man will clutch at a straw. Thomas More drowninghopemen Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Thomas More flowerskyart No more like together than is chalke to coles. Thomas More comparisontogether 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. Thomas More usefearmen The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming their minds and manners aright; they use all possible methods to infuse, very early, into the tender and flexible minds of children, such opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their country, for when deep impressions of these things are made at that age, they follow men through the whole course of their lives, and conduce much to preserve the peace of the government, which suffers by nothing more than by vices that rise out of ill opinions. Thomas More mencountrychildren . . . 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 statesmightmen 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. Thomas More differentmoonislands See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself. Thomas More i-cansafe The servant may not look to be in better case than his master. Thomas More mastersmaylooks And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Thomas More filledplanetslight When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books. Thomas More The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck. Thomas More withoutonlygreatrun And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras. Thomas More thinklanguagecountryworld A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse. Thomas More littleoutbottommoney
