Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries
Peter De Vrieswas an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit. He has been described by the philosopher Daniel Dennett as "probably the funniest writer on religion ever"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 February 1910
CountryUnited States of America
pay rich taxes
The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.
country college ivy
I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.
design
Are you pro- or anti-macassar?
bears stature
What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.
adventure boredom pay
We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.
entrepreneur solutions
Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.
pairs miserable mankind
How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?
reason starting awfulness
Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?
father hate waiting
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
food par
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
children marriage offspring produce themselves
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.