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

More Quotes by Thomas Love Peacock

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

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.

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.