Famous quotes containing the word peter:
“Vice is a creature of such hideous mien ... that the more you see it the better you like it.”
—Finley Peter Dunne (18671936)
“It is a necessary condition of ones ascribing states of consciousness, experiences, to oneself, in the way one does, that one should also ascribe them, or be prepared to ascribe them, to others who are not oneself.... The ascribing phrases are used in just the same sense when the subject is another as when the subject is oneself.”
—Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper;
A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
Wheres the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th18th century. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers (l. 14)