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«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.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: camel, eighty, forty, peacock, peacocks, serpent, seventy, sixty, thirty
«I can live without it all / love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.»
Author: Erica Jong | Keywords: baggage, hungers, peacock, peacocks, pump, pumping, pumps, strut, struts, strutting, tongues, wet
«Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies for instance.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: lilies, peacocks
«Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir/ Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, / With a cargo of ivory, / And apes and peacocks,/Sandalwood, cedarwood and sweet white wine.»
Author: John Masefield | Keywords: cargo, cedarwood, haven, havens, ivory, Nineveh, Ophir, Palestine, peacocks, sandalwood, sunny, white wine
«For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: apes, Gold and Silver, ivory, peacocks, ships, Tarshish, Three Kings
«For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: apes, at sea, Gold and Silver, Hiram, In the Navy, ivory, navy, peacocks, sea a, Three Kings
«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.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: ape, aped, aping, camel, lion, peacock, peacocks, serpent
«She is a peacock in everything but beauty»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Beauty | Keywords: peacock, peacocks
«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.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: anything, bustle, bustles, bustling, corner, cornered, discoveries, down, extraordinary, goes, go down on, hits, hit man, ignorant, In a, knew, modest, peacock, peacocks, sit, sit by, sit in, such, up and down, would
«King Solomon drew merchantmen, / Because of his desire / For peacocks, apes and ivory, / From Tarshish unto Tyre.»
Author: Rudyard Kipling | Keywords: apes, Drew, ivory, peacocks, Solomon, Tarshish, tyre
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