There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you. — Peter De Vries Child Copy Share Image
Time heals nothing — which should make us the better able to minister. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. — Peter De Vries Eating Copy Share Image
What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for ... — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school. — Peter De Vries Education Copy Share Image
I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness — Peter De Vries Freedom Copy Share Image
Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously… — Peter De Vries Business 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
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 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 Copy Share Image
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. — Peter De Vries 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother. — Peter De Vries Adventure Copy Share Image
Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another? — Peter De Vries Awfulness Copy Share Image
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. — Peter De Vries God Copy Share Image
We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through. — Peter De Vries Earth Copy Share Image
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. — Peter De Vries Anniversary Copy Share Image
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy. — Peter De Vries Astrology Copy Share Image
This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. — Peter De Vries Human nature Copy Share Image
Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart. — Peter De Vries Heart 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
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
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. — Peter De Vries Diction Copy Share Image
How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately? — Peter De Vries Happiness 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
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. — Peter De Vries Food Copy Share Image
A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else. — Peter De Vries 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 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 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
