Famous Quotes

Quotes by Laurence J Peter

• A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
• An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
• An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
• Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
• Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
• Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
• Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
• Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
• Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
• Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
• If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
• It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
• Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
• Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
• Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
• Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
• Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
• The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
• The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
• Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
• 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.