All Peter De Vries Quotes
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries in
Marriage
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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
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Marriage
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Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
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We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
Peter De Vries
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Peter De Vries
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I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
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Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
Peter De Vries
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Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
Peter De Vries
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When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
Peter De Vries
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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Peter De Vries
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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Peter De Vries
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The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Peter De Vries in
Humor
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