Sir Thomas More Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

7 Famous Quotes by Sir Thomas More
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“For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good tourne we will write it in duste.”
Monuments Quotes
Source: Richard III
“Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.”
Rights Quotes
Source: Utopia (bk. II)
“They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.”
Fire Quotes
Source: Dial (bk. II, ch. I, folio LXIII, b)
“Whosoever loveth me loveth my hound.”
Dogs Quotes
Source: First Sermon on the Lord's Prayer
“Then on the grounde Togyder rounde With manye a sadde stroke, They roll and rumble, They turne and tumble, As pigges do in a poke.”
Swine Quotes
Source: How a Sergeant would learn to Playe the Frere
“Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.”
Inspirational Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes