Peacocks Quotes
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To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in. (Quote by - Charles Godfrey Leland)
Fly pride, says the peacock: mistress, that you know. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Why, 'a stalks up and down like a peacock--a stride and a stand; ruminates like an hostess that hath no arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning; bites his lip with a politic regard, as who should say, 'There were wit in this head an 'twould out'; and so there is, but it lies as coldly in him as fire in a flint, which will not show without knocking. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail; We'll pull his plumes and take away his train, If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
And there they placed a peacock in his pride, Before the damsel. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
I think peacock is a word Id put out there. (Quote by - Kyle MacLachlan)
She is a peacock in everything but beauty. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Peacock bass like to hide at ambush points, away from the strong canal currents. If you fish early and know those peacock hangouts, you will have little or no trouble catching peacocks on lures and live bait. (Quote by - Mark Hall)
At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. (Quote by - William Blake)
Mr Peacock, I am sorry I have to ask you to stand up. (Quote by - Lee Gilmour)
The tulip is, among flowers, what the peacock is among birds. A tulip lacks scent, a peacock has an unpleasant voice. The one takes pride in its garb, the other in its tail. (Quote by - French Proverb)
Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh. (Quote by - Burmese Proverb)
Theres a history to Peacock Pond. It was a very valuable conservation area. (Quote by - Rosa Durando)
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Our mantra is good pitching and good defense, so that was kind of a typical game for us. For (Peacock) to be able to command three pitches like that was very impressive. (Quote by - Scott Benedict)
News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day. (Quote by - Gene Fowler)
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
The property was supposed to be maintained as a wetland. Im angry. Peacock Pond is destroyed. And they will continue to destroy it. It was once a beautiful wetland. (Quote by - Rosa Durando)
A peacock has too little in its head, too much in its tail. (Quote by - Swedish proverb)
He was Mr. Peacock before NBC. (Quote by - Dan Hendricks)
Its just kind of strange. You just dont see this every day. I get a lot of stray everything, but never a stray peacock. (Quote by - Michelle Sherman)
The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of his tail. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
I think in the first half, we were killed on the boards. Maybe it was because we were concerned about Peacock and we were out of position. They were being aggressive, and we had to play catch-up. (Quote by - Matt Hixenbaugh)
Bond is not a peacock, ... He is a very tough character. He smoked two packs a day, drank straight vodka. He has the best of everything, but then its more Lets get down to business. (Quote by - Nick Sullivan)
Cecil (Peacock) said so, and I dont argue with the owner. We want to be out where its a little clearer. (Quote by - Dan Hendricks)
The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't. (Quote by - George Washington)
The peacock is there not only because its so beautiful, but because since medieval times the peacock was seen as a symbol of Christs immortality. It was believed in the Middle Ages that the flesh of the peacock did not decay after it died. (Quote by - Larry Feinberg)
This is the Cecil Peacock and Brother Derek party. Weve got a bunch of friends going and were going to enjoy it. (Quote by - Dan Hendricks)
Its strange. I thought it was a peacock. (Quote by - Jennifer Jones)
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. (Quote by - Van Wyck Brooks)
The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. (Quote by - SaDi)
