Peter De Vries Famous Quotes
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
"I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning."
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries Quotations
"If you've got to resist, you're chances of being hurt are less the more lethal your weapon. If that were my wife, would I want her to have a .38 Special in her hand Yeah."
Dr Arthur Kellerman
"A little wonton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse."
Sir Thomas More
My fellow Americans I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. (Comment while testing a microphone before a broadcast 11 Aug 84)
Ronald Reagan
Children need models more than they need critics.
Jeseph Joubert
"The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses"
Juvenal
"When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time."
The Work of the Chariot
We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
Seneca
Our lives teach us who we are.
Salman Rushdie
Sincerity is the way of Heaven.
Mencius
"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."
Ring Lardner