Sir Thomas More Quotes

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

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

The minstrel fell but the foeman's chain could not break his proud soul under. The harp he loved ne'er spoke again, for he tore its chords asunder, And said, "No chains shall sully thee, thou soul of love and brav'ry! Thy songs were made for the pure and free; they shall never sound in slav'ry.

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

They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre. [They leap like a flounder out of a frying pan into the fire.]

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before it was neither rhyme nor reason.

He should, as he list, be able to prove the moon made of grene cheese.

When I remember all The friends so link'd together, I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather I feel like one who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.

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