- Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.~ John Ruskin
- A peacock has too little in its head, too much in its tail.~ Swedish proverb
- The tulip is, among flowers, what the peacock is among birds. A tulip lacks scent, a peacock has an unpleasant voice. The one takes pride in its garb, the other in its tail.~ French Proverb
- Sparrows who mimic peacocks are likely to break a thigh.~ Burmese Proverb
- 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.~ Erica Jong
- 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
- 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
