Peter De Vries Quotes

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
Peter De Vries

Food, Emotional, Escape

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries

Marriage, Love, Character

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries

Anniversary, Mature, Bonds

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
Peter De Vries

Through, Put, Another

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
Peter De Vries

Everybody, Liked, Hates

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Peter De Vries

Used, Nostalgia

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
Peter De Vries

Worst, Celibacy

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Peter De Vries

Humor, Him, Another

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
Peter De Vries

Morning, Write, Inspired

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Peter De Vries

Car, Mother, Children

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Peter De Vries

Nothing, Times, Hand

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
Peter De Vries

Good, Soul, Sense

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries

Love, Stand, Writer

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
Peter De Vries

Experience, School, Thinking

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Peter De Vries

God, Order, Exist

The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.
Peter De Vries

Rich, Less, Pay

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries

Marriage, Children, Value

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
Peter De Vries

Love, True, Nothing

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
Peter De Vries

Good, Death, Bored

Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
Peter De Vries

Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries

Life, Jungle, Zoo

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
Peter De Vries

Art, Food, Museums

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Peter De Vries

Hate, Father, Wait

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
Peter De Vries

Pain, Heart, Human

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
Peter De Vries

Food, Museums, Par

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: February 27, 1910

Died: September 28, 1993

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