"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults."
-Peter De Vries
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"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
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"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance."
-Peter De Vries
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"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."
-Peter De Vries
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"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character."
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"Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums."
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
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"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
-George Bernard Shaw
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"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."
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"Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling."
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"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others."
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"Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."
-Margaret Fuller
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