The best Quotes by Peter De Vries

The best Quotes by Peter De Vries

Peter De Vries (February 27, 1910 – September 28, 1993) was an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

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You know the thing about good food? It brings folks together from all walks of life.
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Everything in this room is eatable. Even I'm eatable. But that is called cannibalism, my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.
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I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.
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Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change colour every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little darkred sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.
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This is America. Anyone can eat what they want, as long as they eat too much.
Homer Simpson in The Simpsons - Season 24 Episode 5
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Michael: "Can we have him for supper?"
Sylvia: "Have him to stay for supper, Michael. We aren't cannibals."
Sylvia Davies in Finding Neverland
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
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Why you care about small things? World very simple place. World only have two things: Things you can eat and things you no can eat.
Quina Quen in Final Fantasy - IX
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I can’t walk by chocolate without eating it.
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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
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Everything existing in the Universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
When it comes to the universe we're all shareholders.
The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.
Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.
Quantum physics makes me so happy. It's like looking at the universe naked.
Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory - Season 5 Episode 20
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When we try to pick anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
Can we actually 'know' the universe? My God, it's hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown.
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Chance is the only legitimate ruler of the universe.
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
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A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.
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If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
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Young boys should never be sent to bed... they always wake up a day older.
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Children have got to be free to lead their own lives.
Sebastian in The Little Mermaid
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
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A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms, when his hands are empty.
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I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.
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For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
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It's the way it works: Love plus time minus distance equals hate.
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A happy marriage doesn't mean you have a perfect spouse or a perfect marriage. It simply means you've chosen to look beyond the imperfections in both.
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Lucy, every marriage is a dance; complicated at times, lovely at times, most the time very uneventful. But with Mickey, there will be times when your dance will be on broken glass. There will be pain. And you will either flee that pain or hold tighter and dance through it to the next smooth place.
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Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
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Marriage is like a coffin and each kid is another nail.
Homer Simpson in The Simpsons - Season 14 Episode 2
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Insurance is like marriage. You pay and pay, and never get anything back!
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
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Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
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One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.
Joe Biden - März 2024
What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.
I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.
When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

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