Famous Quotes / Peter De Vries
23 Quotations by Peter De Vries
- 1. Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years ...
- 2. Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff -- it is a ...
- 3. Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
- 4. Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
- 5. I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all th ...
- 6. I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.
- 7. I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
- 8. It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
- 9. Life is a zoo in a jungle.
- 10. My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
- 11. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
- 12. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.
- 13. The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a charac ...
- 14. The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
- 15. The rich aren't like us; they pay less taxes.
- 16. The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. Bit the combination is locked up in the ...
- 17. The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
- 18. There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
- 19. We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.
- 20. We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each ot ...