Peter De Vries Quotes

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

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.

Nostalgia isn`t what it used to be.

Everybody hates me because I`m so universally liked.

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

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.

I love being a writer. What I can`t stand is the paperwork.

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

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

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

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

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

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you

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

I write when I`m inspired, and I see to it that I`m inspired at nine o`clock every morning

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