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Peacock bass like to hide at ambush points, away from the strong canal currents. If you fish early and know those peacock hangouts, you will have little or no trouble catching peacocks on lures and live bait. -- Mark Hall
And that's how the Peacock saved the Chameleon -- Ally Carter
Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't. -- George Washington
If you get bored of doing it (Peacock Pose) with two hands, try it with one. -- Dharma Mittra
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. -- Van Wyck Brooks
To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in. -- Charles Godfrey Leland
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. -- Saadi
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
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
She is a peacock in everything but beauty! -- Oscar Wilde
Turkeys are peacocks that have really let themselves go. -- Kristen Schaal
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. -- William Blake
The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail. -- Rabindranath Tagore
I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! -- Lilly Pulitzer
Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. -- John Ruskin
Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you. -- Herman Melville
British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level. -- Tom Ford
Men's clothes are becoming kind of mod. They're becoming more colorful and more flamboyant, and the male peacock is beginning to show his true plumage. -- Liberace
The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed. -- Joseph Addison
The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color. -- Rumi
I just love the way the '60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived out their fantasies - and dressed their fantasies. -- Anna Sui
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
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
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God. -- William Blake
She is a peacock in everything but beauty. -- Oscar Wilde
There are eight different breeds of peacock. I have them all. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock. -- Aristotle
Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie. -- Lisa Kleypas
A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey. -- Dolly Parton
Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention. -- Owen Wilson
The sun fades like the spreading Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight Might be read as a warning to those desperate For easy solutions. -- John Ashbery
News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day. -- Gene Fowler
It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be a very bad explainer -- Charles Darwin
A peacock escaped from the Central Park Zoo and wandered around the city. Either that or I just saw a pigeon on his way to a gay pride parade. -- Jimmy Fallon
I know exactly how strong he is... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that his body is but weak." -Jason to Mahiya -- Nalini Singh

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