Peers

Famous quotes containing the word peers:

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

“each new victim treads unfalteringly
The never altered circuit of his fate,
Bringing twelve peers as witness
Both to his starry rise and starry fall.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)

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