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Category: Peter De Vries

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.

Mature, Slowly, Like

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Escape, Eating, Emotional

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

Most, Instruments, Certainly

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

Chance, Back, Him

Everybody hates me because I’m so universally liked.

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.

Gluttony is an emotional escape a sign something is eating us.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination but the combination is locked up in the safe.

The rich aren’t like us they pay less taxes.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

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

humour, humorists

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.

family, ancestry