"There are times when parenthood seems nothing more……" — Peter De Vries
"There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you."
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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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A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
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The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear…
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Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
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No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of…
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When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.
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Lethal like venomous snake bites the marijuana makes my eyes bright red like brake lights
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