Rules only make sense if they are both kept and broken. Breaking the rule is one way of observing it. Sir Thomas More More Quotes by Sir Thomas More More Quotes From Sir Thomas More And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others Sir Thomas More Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. Sir Thomas More Friendship demands attention. Sir Thomas More Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again. Sir Thomas More A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. Sir Thomas More Don't give up the ship in a storm because you cannot hold back the winds.” Sir Thomas More No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic. Sir Thomas More The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace. Sir Thomas More 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. Sir Thomas More This hath not offended the king. Sir Thomas More Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound. Sir Thomas More Why dost thou gaze upon the sky O that I were yon spangled sphere Then every star should be an eye, To wander o'er thy beauties here. Sir Thomas More