Life Peers

Famous quotes containing the words life and/or peers:

“He was a man of Spartan habits, and at sixty was scrupulous about his diet at your table, excusing himself by saying that he must eat sparingly and fare hard, as became a soldier, or one who was fitting himself for difficult enterprises, a life of exposure.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Live without envy, spend your peaceful years
Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)