Peter De Vries
"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork."
23 Quotes
"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork."
"أعشق الكتابة، لكن ما لا أطيقه هو الروتين الإداري."
Peter De Vries
"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after."
"دور الأم في الضواحي أن تنجب أطفالها مرة واحدة طبياً، ثم توصلهم بالسيارة إلى الأبد."
Peter De Vries
"Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums."
"المُجَسَّمَاتُ الجدارية في المطاعم كطعامٍ يُقَدَّمُ في المتاحف."
Peter De Vries
"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character."
"إن صعوبة الزواج تكمن في أننا نغرم بشخصية، لكن علينا أن نحيا مع طباع."
Peter De Vries
"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."
"روابط الزواج، شأنها شأن سائر الروابط، تنضج على مهل."
Peter De Vries
"Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us."
"الشَّرَهُ مَهْرَبٌ عاطفيٌّ، وعلامةٌ على أنَّ شيئًا ما ينهشُنا."
Peter De Vries
"The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music."
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 know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another."
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
"If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist - I feel like countering with the word seriousist."
Peter De Vries
"Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults."
Peter De Vries
"Let us hope...that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring."
Peter De Vries
"There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you."
Peter De Vries
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