Peacock Quotes

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.
Baltasar Gracian

Nothing, Dog, Lion

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.
Pope Francis I

Truth, Beautiful, Reality

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
Sa'Di

Rich, Ugly, Himself

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Van Wyck Brooks

Often, Genius, Found

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.
Charles Godfrey Leland

Him, Find, Until

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