Quotes by Thomas More

“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.”

“In real love you want the other persons good. In romantic love, you want the other person.”

“There are two sorts of romantics: those who love, and those who love the adventure of loving”

“Love prefers twilight to daylight”

“It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.”

“He travels best that knows when to return.”

“The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.”

“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”

“To be educated, a person doesnt 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”

“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - thats training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”

“Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.”

“The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.”

“I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.”

“Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power”

“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.”

“An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.”

“Ask a womans advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and youre sure to be wise”

“My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.”

“Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.”

“For love is strong as death, passion as fierce as the grave; Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame”