The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. — Peter De Vries Food Copy Share Image
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another. — Peter De Vries Brain Copy Share Image
Time heals nothing-which should make us better able to minister. — Peter De Vries Able Copy Share Image
When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the… — Peter De Vries Eye Copy Share Image
Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been… — Peter De Vries End Copy Share Image
Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy. — Peter De Vries Astrology Copy Share Image
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. — Peter De Vries Instruments Copy Share Image
Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said… — Peter De Vries Break Copy Share Image
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the… — Peter De Vries Brilliant Copy Share Image
Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we… — Peter De Vries Ends Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better… — Peter De Vries Adultery Copy Share Image
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. — Peter De Vries Alive Copy Share Image
I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the… — Peter De Vries Cents Copy Share Image
I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last.… — Peter De Vries Discouraged Copy Share Image
Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the… — Peter De Vries Crowded Copy Share Image
Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another? — Peter De Vries Awfulness Copy Share Image
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness — Peter De Vries Freedom Copy Share Image
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. — Peter De Vries Adults Copy Share Image
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car for ever after. — Peter De Vries Being a mom Copy Share Image
Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is. — Peter De Vries Blindness Copy Share Image
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. — Peter De Vries Every morning Copy Share Image
This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. — Peter De Vries Human nature Copy Share Image
All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate. — Peter De Vries Bears Copy Share Image
Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart. — Peter De Vries Heart Copy Share Image
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in… — Peter De Vries Billions Copy Share Image
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce… — Peter De Vries Children Copy Share Image
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. — Peter De Vries Combination Copy Share Image
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of… — Peter De Vries Broken Copy Share Image
... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor. — Peter De Vries Bachelors Copy Share Image
Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour… — Peter De Vries Arguing Copy Share Image
Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then… — Peter De Vries Conditions Copy Share Image
I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo,… — Peter De Vries Calling Copy Share Image
“We live this life by a kind of conspiracy of grace: the common assumption, or pretense, that human existence is 'good' or… — Peter De Vries Conspiracy Copy Share Image
I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to… — Peter De Vries Country Copy Share Image
