Peers is a surname, and may refer to:
- Donald Peers
- Edgar Allison Peers, an English academician
- Gavin Peers
- Kerry Peers
- Michael Peers
- Teddy Peers (1886-1935), Welsh international footballer
- William R. Peers, an American General who investigated the My Lai Massacre
Famous quotes containing the word peers:
“The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“For believe me!—the secret to harvesting the greatest abundance and the greatest enjoyment from existence is this—living dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors, so long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you knowing ones! The time will soon be past when you could be content to live hidden in the forests like timid deer.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“He could not have been tried by a jury of his peers, because his peers did not exist.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)