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Quotations By Thomas Moore


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

Deceit
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

Eternity
This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities!

Eternity
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

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.

Marriage
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.

Marriage
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.

World
This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, - There's nothing true but Heaven.

World
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.