Quotes from Sir Thomas More

This hath not offended the king.

Plato by a goodly similitude declareth, why wise men refrain to meddle in the commonwealth. 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.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

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.

See me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.

This is a fair tale of a tub told of his election.

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.

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

Don't give up the ship in a storm because you cannot hold back the winds."

Friendship demands attention.

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.

Rules only make sense if they are both kept and broken. Breaking the rule is one way of observing it.

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

He should, as he list, be able to prove the moon is green cheese.