Author: Thomas Love Peacock

Quotes

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

- Thomas Love Peacock

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

- Thomas Love Peacock

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

- Thomas Love Peacock

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

- Thomas Love Peacock

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