Thomas Love PeacockThinkers

The Book is no book which furnishes no quotations; it is a plaything.

Drinking is done for two reasons: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.

Marriage is at best a dangerous experiment.

The Present is our own; but while we speak, We cease from its possession, and resign The stage we tread on, to another race. As vain, and gay, and mortal as ourselves.

Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.