Thomas Love Peacock

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.

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

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

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

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

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

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.

Clouds on clouds in volumes driven. Curtain round the vault of heaven.

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

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

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

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