Peevishness Quotes
- Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent… — Lyndon B. Johnson
- Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from becoming a burden to ourselves.… — Jeremy Collier
- Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living,… — William Butler Yeats
- If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible… — Jeremy Taylor
- Do not carry a spirit of contradiction, for it is to be freighted with stupidity and with peevishness, and your intelligence should plot against it;… — Baltasar Gracian