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. -Thomas Love Peacock

 

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.


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This quote is just one of 8 total Thomas Love Peacock quotes in our collection. Thomas Love Peacock is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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

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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

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Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

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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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The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. -Thomas Love Peacock
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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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