Peacock Quotes
Here is a list of quotes about peacocks I have found on the web. I have no idea what purpose they mights serve, but here they are.
- 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.
-Gene Fowler
- 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.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of his tail.
-Rabindranath Tagore
- Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
-Van Wyck Brooks
- 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."
-Baltasar Gracian
- Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
-John Ruskin
- Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't.
-George Washington
- A peacock that sits around on its tail feathers is just another turkey.
-author unknown
- Vain as a peacock.
-Common proverb, author unknown
Here is a list of quotes about peacocks I have found on the web. I have no idea what purpose they mights serve, but here they are.
- 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.
-Gene Fowler
- 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.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of his tail.
-Rabindranath Tagore
- Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
-Van Wyck Brooks
- 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."
-Baltasar Gracian
- Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
-John Ruskin
- Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't.
-George Washington
- A peacock that sits around on its tail feathers is just another turkey.
-author unknown
- Vain as a peacock.
-Common proverb, author unknown
- 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.
-Gene Fowler
- 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.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of his tail.
-Rabindranath Tagore
- Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
-Van Wyck Brooks
- 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."
-Baltasar Gracian
- Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
-John Ruskin
- Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't.
-George Washington
- A peacock that sits around on its tail feathers is just another turkey.
-author unknown
- Vain as a peacock.
-Common proverb, author unknown
