Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Laurence J. Peter

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Laurence J. Peter

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Laurence J. Peter

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Laurence J. Peter

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Laurence J. Peter

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Laurence J. Peter

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

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If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

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If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

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America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

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An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

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Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

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It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

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Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

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Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Laurence J. Peter