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Sir Thomas More
English writer, philosopher, and statesman
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn, we write it in dust.
—Sir Thomas More, English writer, philosopher, and statesman, Richard III and His Miserable End, 1543

Posted on February 14, 2000 at 8:52 PM

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