199 Quotes by Thomas More

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.

'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.

Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone

Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dreams

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, / But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life

Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers, and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves.