Thomas Love Peacock Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Thomas Love Peacock:

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

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

Thomas Love Peacock

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Thomas Love Peacock

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

Thomas Love Peacock

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

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

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

Thomas Love Peacock

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

Thomas Love Peacock