21 quotes by Laurence J. Peter

“Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“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

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“If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.” — Laurence J. Peter

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