Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Peter De Vries
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Peter De Vries
Age: 83 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 27
Died: 1993
Died: September 28
Editor
Novelist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Roles
Mama
Forever
Pregnancy
Funny
Deliver
Mother
Motherhood
Children
Appreciation
Mom
Suburban
Car
Mothering
Role
Mum
More quotes by Peter De Vries
I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.
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
What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.
Peter De Vries
People rarely do what they don't want to.
Peter De Vries
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
Peter De Vries
... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.
Peter De Vries
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?
Peter De Vries
Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my sentence without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams somewhat longer for a paradox.
Peter De Vries
What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.
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
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
Peter De Vries
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability
Peter De Vries
Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
Peter De Vries
Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?
Peter De Vries
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
Peter De Vries
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
Peter De Vries
I tried to write worse but it was no good my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.
Peter De Vries
A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.
Peter De Vries
Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.
Peter De Vries
