Peter De VriesThinkers

Boredom is the cost of security just as the cost of adventure is bother.

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff.

Gluttony is eating us.

God is one for whom the final proof of his omnipotence is that he need not exist in order to save us.

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

Humor is contrasted with satire in that the satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive'often to release him again for another chance.

Life is a foreign language which all men mispronounce.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Marriage is difficult because we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Marriage's value is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults, for who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive'.

The Mother is one who delivers children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

The Novel should always have a beginning, a muddle, and an end.