128 Quotes by Peter De Vries

Exercise is an unnatural act.

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.

I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?

All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.

What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.

I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.

There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for ...

... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability