It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
- Peter De Vries
Need, Final, Exist, Omnipotence
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
- Peter De Vries
Anniversary, Other, Like, Bonds
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
- Peter De Vries
More, Times, Parenthood, Bites
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.
- Peter De Vries
Confession, Rather, Coat, Remedy
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
- Peter De Vries
Food, Emotional, Sign, Gluttony
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
- Peter De Vries
Humor, Chance, Prey, Humorist
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
- Peter De Vries
Universe, Like, Which, Locked
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
- Peter De Vries
Love, Being, I Love, Paperwork
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
- Peter De Vries
Life, Life Is A, Zoo, Jungle
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
- Peter De Vries
Cookie, Over, Turned, Precise
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
- Peter De Vries
Death, Go, Wanted, Bored
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
- Peter De Vries
Wait, Could, Too, Invented
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
- Peter De Vries
Most, Very, Certainly, Tuba
Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
- Peter De Vries
Will, Been, Which, Providence
Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
- Peter De Vries
Pain, Question, Turned, Mark
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
Broken, Think, Longer, Victims
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
- Peter De Vries
Food, Museums, Par, Restaurants
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
- Peter De Vries
Art, Museums, Par, Restaurants
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
- Peter De Vries
Marriage, Children, Value, Adult
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
- Peter De Vries
Mature, Before, Offspring, Adult
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
- Peter De Vries
Love, Marriage, Character, Difficulty
The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.
- Peter De Vries
Rich, Like, Pay, Less
We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
- Peter De Vries
Earth, Through, See, Primarily
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
- Peter De Vries
School, Learn, Some, Summer
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
- Peter De Vries
Mother, Role, Suburban, Deliver
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
- Peter De Vries
See, Nine, I Write, Inspired
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
- Peter De Vries
Celibacy, Form, Worst
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
- Peter De Vries
Me, Everybody, Universally, Hates
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
- Peter De Vries
Used, Nostalgia
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
- Peter De Vries
Love, Other, Like, Yes
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