Thomas More
Thomas More
Sir Thomas More, venerated by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was also a councillor to Henry VIII, and Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to 16 May 1532...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth7 February 1478
government law leader
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
light planets filled
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
men names rich
Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
flower problem educated
Nobody sees a flower really,it is so small. We haven't time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
doctors giving disease
It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.
men good-man
The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
heaven
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
may looks masters
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
change running confusion
Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
men might states
. . . 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.
poetry reason rhyme
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
hope men drowning
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
together comparison
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
god god-love this-life
To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.