The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in lo... -Peter De Vries

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Peter De Vries , Novelist
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Peter De Vries Quotes to Explore

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance....
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums....
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us....
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly....
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults....
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character....
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums....
Life is a zoo in a jungle....

Marriage Quotes to Explore

I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefu...
Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement....
Same-sex marriage is not the future....
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments....
I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids....
So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 ...
Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children....
But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage....
Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppre...
If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude ...