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Peacock Quotes

Peacock Definition  
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

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

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

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

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

  


  

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