Vries

Famous quotes containing the word 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 (20th century)

    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 (b. 1910)

    Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
    —Peter De Vries (b. 1910)