Famous Quotes / Laurence J. Peter
52 Quotations by Laurence J. Peter
- 1. A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than ...
- 2. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
- 3. A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
- 4. Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- 5. America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record get ...
- 6. America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
- 7. An economist is an expert who will know tommorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happe ...
- 8. An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
- 9. As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
- 10. Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
- 11. Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something ...
- 12. Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
- 13. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
- 14. Don't believe in miracles -- depend on them.
- 15. Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?
- 16. Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
- 17. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- 18. Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
- 19. Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
- 20. Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus dri ...