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

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

Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries

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

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

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

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

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