“Go you and, with such glorious hues,
Live with proud peacocks in green parks.”

“Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

“We’d have a motherfucking shitload of dogs! Horses. Peacocks. Oh to live among peacocks. I’d seen them once in person and they defied so many laws of color and gravity that they had to be made geniuses waiting to take over everything.”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

“Heaven above is softer blue
Earth around is sweeter green;
Something lives in every hue
Christless eyes have never seen
Birds with gladder songs o'erflow
Flowers with deeper beauties shine. Since I know, as now I know, I am His, and He is mine.”

George Wade Robinson (1838–1877) Irish poet

“And that's how the Peacock saved the Chameleon”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“She is a peacock in everything but beauty!”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

“On a traffic light green means 'go' and yellow means 'yield', but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means 'hold on,' yellow means 'go ahead,' and red means, 'where the hell did you get that banana at?”

Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) American stand-up comedian

“The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

“Angels, living light most glorious!
Beneath the Godhead in burning desire
in the darkness and mystery of creation
you look on the eye of your God
never taking your fill:
What glorious pleasures take shape within you!”

Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) Medieval saint, prophetise, mystic and Doctor of Church

“You have many years to live—do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.”

John Brunner book Stand on Zanzibar