25 Quotes By Thomas Moore


Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Thomas Moore on age

True change takes place in the imagination.
Thomas Moore on change

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
Thomas Moore on education

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Thomas Moore on freedom

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.
Thomas Moore on friendship

Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Thomas Moore on friendship

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.
Thomas Moore on gardening

True change takes place in the imagination.
Thomas Moore on imagination

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
Thomas Moore on intelligence

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
Thomas Moore on learning

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.
Thomas Moore on love

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.
Thomas Moore on love

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.
Thomas Moore on marriage

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Thomas Moore on nature

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.
Thomas Moore on romantic

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.
Thomas Moore on truth

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
Thomas Moore on wisdom

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.
Thomas Moore on valentines day

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
Thomas Moore on age

Mary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving.
Thomas Moore on deceit