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.

More Quotes by Thomas Love Peacock

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

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

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

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

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

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