"Marriage is a lottery in which men stake……" — Peter De Vries
"Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness"
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75 Quotes by Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries has 75 quotes on this site.
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When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the…
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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
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We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my…
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We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
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Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask.…
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.…
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Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
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Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back…
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Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under…
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Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another…
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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He who hath many friends hath none.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or…
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
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