Peter De Vries Quotes - BrainyQuote

American - Novelist February 27, 1910 - September 28, 1993

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Life Life Is A Jungle Zoo

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

Anniversary Mature Like Any

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

Heart Pain Like Question

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

Food Eating Emotional Escape

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

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

Marriage Children Value Produce

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

Art Food Museums Par

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

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Words Like Over Out

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

Universe Like Safe Combination

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

Worst Form Celibacy

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

Music Most Very Certainly

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

You Nothing More Hand

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

See Earth Through Another

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

Mother Car Children Forever

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

Humor Chance Back Alive

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

Love Marriage Personality Character

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

Love Stand Being Paperwork

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

Broken Think I Can Bear

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

Father Hate Wait Television

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

Rich Like Us Pay

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

Me Because Everybody Hates

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

Good Death Way Go

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

Food Museums Par Restaurants

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

Morning See I See Inspired

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

Experience Thinking School Go

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