Quotes from Thomas Love Peacock


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    The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

    Waste | Scarcity | Resource


    There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.

    Thirsty | Drinking | Cure


    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.

    Power | Alone | Drunk


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

    Marriage | Horse | Lake


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

    Best | Audience | Convince


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

    Science | Destiny | Race


    A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

    Furnishes | Quotations


    Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

    Names | Changed | Ceremonies


    Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

    Animals | Obvious | Created


       

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