I embrace, I veritably hug and cuddle, the concept of optimism. It is the core of my approach to my existence.
— Shane 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
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
The sun fades like the spreadingOf a peacock's tail, as though twilight
Might be read as a warning to those desperate
For easy solutions. — John Ashbery
May we serve as God's messengers through love in action. - Nora Peacock - — Gary Chapman
Pride doesn't go before a fall, it keeps you from falling. — Shane Peacock
Like a peacock, dance with an open mind and a loving heart to reveal your incredible beauty. — Debasish Mridha
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man. — Thomas Love Peacock
Time is lord of thee:Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his. — Thomas Love 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
I'm sorry I couldn't be more than I was — Matthew Quick
Civilization begins at 10 am. — B.N. Peacock
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
People lied. That's just what they did. — Kathleen Peacock
Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease. — Judith Peacock
But still my fancy wanders freeThrough that which might have been. — Thomas Love 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
No one, absolutely no one, can be trusted. — Shane Peacock
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
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
Time, the foe of man's dominion,Wheels around in ceaseless flight,
Scattering from his hoary pinion
Shades of everlasting night. — Thomas Love Peacock
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
Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention. — Owen Wilson
There are eight different breeds of peacock. I have them all. — Bidzina Ivanishvili
If sharks could smile, they'd smile like he was now. — Kathleen Peacock
I was starting to think maybe there were never any reason for the horrible things people did. None that mattered, anyway. — Kathleen Peacock
Mr Flosky suddenly stopped: he found himself unintentionally trespassing within the limits of common sense. — 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
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything. — Thomas Love Peacock
I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree. — Doug Peacock
If you want to change the world, make something beautiful. — Charlie 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
I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want. — Charlie Peacock
If you get bored of doing it (Peacock Pose) with two hands, try it with one. — Dharma Mittra
Flamingo necks, peacock brains, pike livers, lark tongues, sow's udders, elephant trunks and ears extravagantly frilled with parsley. — Kate Quinn
Asking a peacock to pull out his feathers was a hard thing to do. — Tarryn Fisher
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
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away. — Thomas Love Peacock
You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know. — Matthew Quick
One must pursue things for the right reasons. — Shane Peacock
Everyone always sees more than they remember. And sometimes people see things they're not ready to accept. — Kathleen Peacock
I perceive , Sir , you are one of those who love an authority more than a reason — Thomas Love Peacock
Sounds like the start of a beautiful friendship, Leonard. It really does." "Here's looking at you, kid. — Matthew Quick
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 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
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
no one ever does the right thing. — Matthew Quick
Jason straightened his shirt. "What's 'chauvinistic' mean?""It's in the dictionary next to a picture of your father," muttered
Kyle. — Kathleen Peacock
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 eyesand calls it his pride. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When we emerge into the beauty of a dancing peacock, our spirit dances with joy. — Debasish Mridha
There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed. — Charlie 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
Be like a tree, bloom like a flower, sing like a bird, and dance like a peacock. — Debasish Mridha
What can be sustained and repeated without emptying out? — Jan 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
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
Man yields to death; and man's sublimest worksMust yield at length to Time. — Thomas Love Peacock
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 should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice. — Matthew Quick
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
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
Fancy feathers make peacocks, but you pluck them and see what's left. — Catherine Cookson
Be like a peacock and dance with all of your beauty. — Debasish Mridha
Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas. — Thomas Love Peacock
But if a peacock dances in the jungle, there is nobody to see its tail. — Salman Rushdie
They've never had to make any real decisions at all. Their lives are easy and unremarkable. They're not awake. — Matthew Quick
You can't lose what you never had. — Kathleen 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
