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Nonviolence is the summit of bravery. — Mahatma Gandhi

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it. — Luc Ferrari

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

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

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

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war. — Benito Mussolini

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

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

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

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. — Thomas Love Peacock

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism. — Irving Babbitt

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

Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world. — Frances Mayes

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

I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then. — Thomas Love Peacock

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

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

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

Our scars make us who we are. Some scars are just deeper than others. — Alex Rosa

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

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

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

All doors are open to the believer. It is the lesson of the Samaritan woman at the well. — Patti Smith

How do you destroy a devil to save an angel who's torn out her own eyes to believe in only his whispered deceit in her ears? — Bishop Harber

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

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose? — Don Marquis

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical. — Wayne Dyer

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

I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing. — Will Hobbs

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

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

Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people. — Nelson Mandela

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

The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years! — Edward J. Stieglitz

My Personality
unfolding before you
like a Swiss Army knife. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

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

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