Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel. Thomas More More Quotes by Thomas More More Quotes From Thomas More A man taking basil from a woman will love her always. Thomas More vegetablesfoodmen Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all. Thomas More public-officecampaignsoffice 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. Thomas More choicesadvicefood In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity; and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties. Thomas More anxietytakenmen Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others. Thomas More shiningpridethinking If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him. Thomas More hardlionsmen What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it. Thomas More make-the-best-of-itcarpe-diemplay 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 realtimethinking By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men. Thomas More officewisemen 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. Thomas More influencegoodnessjustice A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him. Thomas More maycharactermen Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish. Thomas More prideheartmen Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words. Thomas More kindnessheartmen It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions. Thomas More chancemadefriendship One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor. Thomas More smartkingsmen An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man. Thomas More new-ideasmenideas 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 visionsoulspiritual The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them. Thomas More good-manmen The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless. Thomas More parentwatermen 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 lionskingsmen
