A Quote by Peter De Vries

... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

Peter De Vries

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Peter De Vries
American - Novelist
February 27, 1910 - September 28, 1993

All of mathematics can be deduced from the sole notion of an integer; here we have a fact universally acknowledged today.

Emile Borel

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

George Santayana

I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.

Tara Bray Smith

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Elijah Cummings

Being a good husband and father... that's the most important thing I'm going to do on this earth.

Shawn Michaels

It is a truth universally acknowledged that secrets are toxic and break up families.

Jane Ridley

Christmas 1972 was a lonely time for Kissinger, as well as for his boss, and a period of serious reflection. Kissinger was then a bachelor, enamored of the tall, elegant, but elusive WASP Nancy Maginnes, but still very much a bachelor - Washington's most sought-after bachelor.

Alistair Horne

It is a truth universally acknowledged that M. Dirda is a sucker for anything bookish in the way of artwork.

Michael Dirda

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.

Anna Godbersen

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen

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Carole Radziwill

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Nick Viall

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Jane Welsh Carlyle

We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.