Quotes by : Peter De Vries

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

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

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative....

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

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

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

How I hate this world. I would like to tear it apart with my own two hands if I could. I would like to....

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

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

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.