"The waste of plenty is the resource of…" — Thomas Love Peacock
"The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity."
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25 Quotes by Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock has 25 quotes on this site.
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I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
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The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.
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There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty,…
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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
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I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
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... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism,…
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I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and…
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Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.
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The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.
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Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
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Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
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Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be…
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There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
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Friends and brothers, The Almighty created us Indians. We are as he made us. The Almighty has given to the…
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We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error…
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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
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I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out…
— Andre Agassi
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with…
— Daniel Boone
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Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and…
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's…
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the…
— James Buchan
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I always said if it gets to a point where I really want a child, I would adopt; kids are…
— Sandra Bullock
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