Peacock Quotes

I embrace, I veritably hug and cuddle, the concept of optimism. It is the core of my approach to my existence. — Shane Peacock

You can only possess what you experience. Truth to be understood must be lived. — Charlie Peacock

In Banff, the mountains are really close to your head ... — Jan Peacock

Misery and pride. 'On horseback, death and a peacock'. — Milan Kundera

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air. — Thomas Love Peacock

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy. — Thomas Love Peacock

Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't. — George Washington

What a surprise. That boy doesn't have the sense God gave a cactus. — Kathleen Peacock

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. — William Blake

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

Parents believe that their greatest responsibility is to provide....its not...it is to prepare! — Regina Peacock

There is a time for every thing under the sun. You may as well dine first, and be miserable afterwards. — Thomas Love Peacock

Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie. — Lisa Kleypas

Enjoy the beauty of a peacock to reveal your own beauty on the canvas of your mind. — Debasish Mridha

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey. — Dolly Parton

Try everything twice; the first time is never the best. — Robin Peacock

The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. — Thomas Love Peacock

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in. — Charles Godfrey Leland

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. — Thomas Love Peacock

The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail. — Rabindranath Tagore

Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty," said Lord Henry, — Oscar Wilde

He towered over the Queen with his wings fanned out. Azrael realized he was threatening her, like a peacock intimidating its adversary. — A.J. Flowers

The full glory of the hokey pokey is to put your whole self in. — Charlie Peacock

It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be a very bad explainer — Charles Darwin

She is a peacock in everything but beauty! — Oscar Wilde

Skaters are very much like peacocks. — Jon Heder

The peacock's plumage is its enemy: O many the king who hath been slain by his magnificence! — Maulana Jalaluddin Mohammad Balkhi

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. — Thomas Love Peacock

You'll just pamper Anne's vanity, Matthew, and she's as vain as a peacock now. — L.M. Montgomery

Painting the feathers of a chicken does not make it a peacock. ~Jane Doe — Sarah Cass

No matter our limitations, God has a great purpose for our lives. - Nora Peacock - — Gary Chapman

The sun fades like the spreading
Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight
Might be read as a warning to those desperate
For easy solutions. — John Ashbery

Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools? — Thomas Love Peacock

Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes
and calls it his pride. — Friedrich Nietzsche

May we serve as God's messengers through love in action. - Nora Peacock - — Gary Chapman

When we emerge into the beauty of a dancing peacock, our spirit dances with joy. — Debasish Mridha

Pride doesn't go before a fall, it keeps you from falling. — Shane Peacock

There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed. — Charlie Peacock

Like a peacock, dance with an open mind and a loving heart to reveal your incredible beauty. — Debasish Mridha

Jason straightened his shirt. "What's 'chauvinistic' mean?"
"It's in the dictionary next to a picture of your father," muttered
Kyle. — Kathleen Peacock

Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven. — Thomas Love Peacock

It ain't wilderness unless there's a critter out there that can kill you and eat you. — Doug Peacock

no one ever does the right thing. — Matthew Quick

Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
Must yield at length to Time. — Thomas Love Peacock

Be like a tree, bloom like a flower, sing like a bird, and dance like a peacock. — Debasish Mridha

Time is lord of thee:
Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his. — Thomas Love Peacock

I was too scared to open my eyes. It was the logic of a child; if you don't open your eyes, the monster won't see you. — Kathleen Peacock

You can't lose what you never had. — Kathleen Peacock

They've never had to make any real decisions at all. Their lives are easy and unremarkable. They're not awake. — Matthew Quick

But if a peacock dances in the jungle, there is nobody to see its tail. — Salman Rushdie

Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas. — Thomas Love Peacock

Be like a peacock and dance with all of your beauty. — Debasish Mridha

Fancy feathers make peacocks, but you pluck them and see what's left. — Catherine Cookson

I'm a peacock captain you gotta let me fly!" From the movie, "The Other Guys." That line is so me. I can be goofy at times. — T.K. Richards

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

What can be sustained and repeated without emptying out? — Jan Peacock

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. — Van Wyck Brooks

There wasn't a single part of me that didn't want him to stay. But I loved him enough to want what was best for him. Even if I wasn't it. — Kathleen Peacock

Raven: The Reverend Mr Larynx has been called off on duty, to marry or bury (I don't know which) some unfortunate person or persons, at Claydyke: ... — Thomas Love Peacock

People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice. — Matthew Quick

Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country. — Thomas Love Peacock

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. — Saadi

I have spent too much time with my eye glued to the viewfinder and ended up missing both the image of the mind and that on film. — Doug Peacock

I had been brought up to believe that caring about people was a weakness, but loving Kyle didn't make me weak. It made me strong. — Kathleen Peacock

If sharks could smile, they'd smile like he was now. — Kathleen Peacock

A peacock escaped from the Central Park Zoo and wandered around the city. Either that or I just saw a pigeon on his way to a gay pride parade. — Jimmy Fallon

If you want to change the world, make something beautiful. — Charlie Peacock

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree. — Doug Peacock

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything. — Thomas Love Peacock

The wind had blown the fog away, and the sky was like a monstrous peacock's tail, starred with myriads of golden eyes. — Oscar Wilde

Mr Flosky suddenly stopped: he found himself unintentionally trespassing within the limits of common sense. — Thomas Love Peacock

I was starting to think maybe there were never any reason for the horrible things people did. None that mattered, anyway. — Kathleen Peacock

Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease. — Judith Peacock

I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want. — Charlie Peacock

There are eight different breeds of peacock. I have them all. — Bidzina Ivanishvili

Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention. — Owen Wilson

An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it. — Jan Peacock

Time, the foe of man's dominion,
Wheels around in ceaseless flight,
Scattering from his hoary pinion
Shades of everlasting night. — Thomas Love Peacock

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing — Baltasar Gracian

That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same. — Matthew Quick

No one, absolutely no one, can be trusted. — Shane Peacock

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day. — Gene Fowler

Civilization begins at 10 am. — B.N. Peacock

I'm sorry I couldn't be more than I was — Matthew Quick

I loved Kyle. More than anything. Maybe enough to want what was best for him
even if that best would end up hurting me. — Kathleen Peacock

But still my fancy wanders free
Through that which might have been. — Thomas Love Peacock

Sounds like the start of a beautiful friendship, Leonard. It really does." "Here's looking at you, kid. — Matthew Quick

I perceive , Sir , you are one of those who love an authority more than a reason — Thomas Love Peacock

Everyone always sees more than they remember. And sometimes people see things they're not ready to accept. — Kathleen Peacock

One must pursue things for the right reasons. — Shane Peacock

You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know. — Matthew Quick

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed. — Joseph Addison

Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, 'I want a man, not a preening peacock! — Katherine Givens

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams. — Thomas Love Peacock

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

People lied. That's just what they did. — Kathleen 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. — Thomas Love Peacock

Asking a peacock to pull out his feathers was a hard thing to do. — Tarryn Fisher

Flamingo necks, peacock brains, pike livers, lark tongues, sow's udders, elephant trunks and ears extravagantly frilled with parsley. — Kate Quinn

If you get bored of doing it (Peacock Pose) with two hands, try it with one. — Dharma Mittra