Peers

Famous quotes containing the word peers:

“The generations of thy peers are fled.
And we ourselves shall go;
But thou possessest an immortal lot,
And we imagine thee exempt from age”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

“He could not have been tried by a jury of his peers, because his peers did not exist.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Passion crashes into obstacles; Reason peers around them.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)