A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything. ~Thomas Love Peacock
Book Plaything Quotations
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. ~Thomas Love Peacock
Science Destiny Think
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away. ~Thomas Love Peacock
Best Go Away
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond. ~Thomas Love Peacock
Marriage Horse May
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. ~Thomas Love Peacock
Names More Ceremonies
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
Power Alone Drunk
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man. ~Thomas Love Peacock
Man Nothing Animals
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. ~Thomas Love Peacock
Waste Resource Scarcity
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. ~Thomas Love Peacock
You Cure Two