Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
- Thomas Love Peacock
Names, Ceremonies, Readily, Doctrines
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
- Thomas Love Peacock
Horse, Always, Pond, Lake
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
Drink, More, Still, Floor
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
- Thomas Love Peacock
Destiny, Think, Race, Exterminate
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
- Thomas Love Peacock
Book, Plaything, Quotations
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
- Thomas Love Peacock
Never, Audience, Go Away, Failed
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
- Thomas Love Peacock
More, Were, Created, Solely
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
Other, Prevent, Reasons, Thirsty
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