The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Peter De Vries
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Peter De Vries
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Peter De Vries
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.
Peter De Vries
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
Peter De Vries