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


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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
PETER MCWILLIAMS
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
PETER HANDKE
Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be so...
PETER DAVID
Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.
PETER KREEFT
Twisting lemons into lemonade.
PETER DUCHAN
We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because w...
PETER GELDERLOOS
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice th...
PETER KREEFT
There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to...
PETER HELLER
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
PETER USTINOV
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an i...
PETER KREEFT
We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as tr...
PETER REDGROVE
If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but y...
PETER TOWNSEND
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
PETER SHAFFER
That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is la...
PETER DAVID
Elke webpagina van de site heeft een uithangbord waaraan de bezoeker herkent waar hij terecht is gek...
PETER KASSENAAR
The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. Th...
PETER MARSHALL
Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being...
PETER HELLER
Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ...
PETER RUSSELL
Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.
PETER READING
The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
PETER MCWILLIAMS
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
PETER MCWILLIAMS
The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.
PETER DRUCKER
Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.
PETER DANIEL
Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
PETER USTINOV
The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
PETER MCWILLIAMS
The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to...
PETER USTINOV
The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins e...
PETER CONRAD
Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.
PETER NICOLS
Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.
PETER SCOTESE
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
PETER SELLER