Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.
SIR THOMAS MORE And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
SIR THOMAS MORE Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for...
SIR THOMAS MORE For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good tourne we...
SIR THOMAS MORE For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the ...
SIR THOMAS MORE A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
SIR THOMAS MORE They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so m...
SIR THOMAS MORE This hath not offended the king.
SIR THOMAS MORE Why dost thou gaze upon the sky?
O that I were yon spangled sphere!
Then every star should b...
SIR THOMAS MORE Nay, tempt me not to love again:
There was a time when love was sweet;
Dear Nea! had I known...
SIR THOMAS MORE Then on the grounde Togyder rounde With manye a sadde stroke, They roll and rumble, ...
SIR THOMAS MORE And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
SIR THOMAS MORE Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
SIR THOMAS MORE Whosoever loveth me loveth my hound.
SIR THOMAS MORE The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simpli...
THOMAS MORE What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
THOMAS MORE For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infan...
THOMAS MORE One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not...
THOMAS MORE Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else whe...
THOMAS MORE I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
THOMAS MORE And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
THOMAS MORE Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's ...
THOMAS MORE [how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are ...
THOMAS MORE And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think ther...
THOMAS MORE There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every t...
THOMAS MORE Then awake! the heavens look bright, my dear; / 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear;/ And the b...
THOMAS MORE Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill tha...
THOMAS MORE On ne renonce pas à sauver le navire dans la tempête parce qu'on ne saurait empêcher le vent de s...
THOMAS MORE A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
THOMAS MORE If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
THOMAS MORE Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
THOMAS MORE He travels best that knows when to return.
THOMAS MORE The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simpli...
THOMAS MORE One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated
THOMAS MORE Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise
THOMAS MORE She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, / And lovers are round her, sighing:/ But cold...
THOMAS MORE Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal
THOMAS MORE Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
THOMAS MORE Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and de...
THOMAS MORE A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
THOMAS MORE What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine
THOMAS MORE If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if I mention love's devot...
THOMAS MORE The way to Heaven out of all places is of like length and distance
THOMAS MORE The devil - the prowde spirit - cannot endure to be mocked
THOMAS MORE The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close
THOMAS MORE Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, / Where cold and unhonoured his relics are laid...
THOMAS MORE Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, / Which I gaze on so fondly to-day.
THOMAS MORE Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all d...
THOMAS MORE By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, natu...
THOMAS MORE This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason o...
THOMAS MORE . . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell...
THOMAS MORE I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
THOMAS MORE Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
THOMAS MORE Our purpose is to be the sword and shield for people of faith ... to defend and protect Christians a...
THOMAS MORE An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagina...
THOMAS MORE An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
THOMAS MORE The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing
THOMAS MORE Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still
THOMAS MORE To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have b...
THOMAS MORE Friendship demands attention.
THOMAS MORE Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound
THOMAS MORE Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become...
THOMAS MORE 'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone
THOMAS MORE The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without ...
THOMAS MORE The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the ...
THOMAS MORE I never nursed a dear gazelle, / To glad me with its soft black eye, / But when it came to know me w...
THOMAS MORE Oh! blame not the bard.
THOMAS MORE Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, / But the trail of the serpent is over them all!
THOMAS MORE Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power
THOMAS MORE Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, / But turn to ashes on the lips!
THOMAS MORE A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
THOMAS MORE The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion an...
THOMAS MORE No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.
THOMAS MORE Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide every...
THOMAS MORE For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet ca...
THOMAS MORE "Tell me, what's Love?" said Youth, one day, To drooping Age, who crost his way, "It is a sunny hour...
THOMAS MORE They have no lawyers among them for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to...
THOMAS MORE This case is about free inquiry in education, not about a religious agenda,
THOMAS MORE I was really happy with the way the kids played tonight, ... We executed our doubles strategy perfec...
THOMAS MORE Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
THOMAS MORE Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
THOMAS MORE My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me
THOMAS MORE Is not this house [the Tower of London] as nigh heaven as my own?
THOMAS MORE You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, / But the scent of the roses will hang round i...
THOMAS MORE Bill Dotson holds a special place in my life,
THOMAS MORE Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you where would you hide, the laws...
THOMAS MORE A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roué to retire upon.
THOMAS MORE The harp that once through Tara's halls / The soul of music shed, / Now hangs as mute as Tara's wall...
THOMAS MORE Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot
THOMAS MORE Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
THOMAS MORE There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dreams
THOMAS MORE No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream
THOMAS MORE Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to m...
THOMAS MORE The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.
THOMAS MORE If it be a point of humanity for man to bring health and comfort to man, and especially to mitigate ...
THOMAS MORE Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
THOMAS MORE Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and deter...
SIR THOMAS TREVES Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Rich with the spoils of nature.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, an...
SIR THOMAS MALORY Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by makin...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain ...
SIR THOMAS WYATT Never despair, keep pushing on!
SIR THOMAS LIPTON Patience, though I have not
The thing that I require,
I must of force, God wot,
Forbear my...
SIR THOMAS WYATT It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the trues...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Life is pure flame.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Chari...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his pro...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to depriv...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Death is the cure for all diseases.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE And first Satan's endeavours have ever been, and they cease not yet to instill a belief in the minde...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effec...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping m...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There is no road or ready way to virtue.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magic of numbers.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't ...
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Ma...
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is we that are blind, not fortune.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any w...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them...
SIR THOMAS OVERBORE There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, whe...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE For like as herbs and trees bringing forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,--the only ...
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and es...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE God is like a skilful Geometrician.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, w...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary sp...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is b...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table amon...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. - Sir Th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics: I desire to exercise my faith in the...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his pr...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident o...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Women do most delight in revenge.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot ho...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, i...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Fesaunt excedeth all fowles in sweetnesse and holsomnesse, and is equall to capon in nourishynge.
SIR THOMAS ELYOT Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homag...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
SIR THOMAS MALORY " i am a man, not a duck, llama, or fish, once a man, always a man"
SIR STUART THOMAS Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take.
SIR THOMAS ELYOT [The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to appear healthy, although his end ...
SIR THOMAS ROE Wit thou well that I will notlive long after thy days.
SIR THOMAS MALORY Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.
SIR THOMAS WYATT What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?
SIR THOMAS MALORY And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY