Thomas Love Peacock quotes

" Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. " # Change

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

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

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

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

" The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. " # Waste # Time and Time Management # Books - Reading

" I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. " # Science and Scientists