Skip to content

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. The first is obvious, mechanical, and plebeian; the second is most refined, abstract, prospicient, and canonical.

— Thomas Love Peacock

Another quote →

More quotes by Thomas Love Peacock

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

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

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

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
Must yield at length to Time.

All Thomas Love Peacock quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Love Peacock (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.