Laurence J. Peter Quotes

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

Funny, Two, Try

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

Friendship, Fool, Yourself

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

Funny, Until, Knows

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

Business, Today, Tomorrow

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

Funny, Art, Forgetting

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

Anger, Best, Angry

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Laurence J. Peter

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

Valentine's Day, Lost, Loved

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

Work, Level, Employees

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Laurence J. Peter

Mind, Sign, Clean

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

America, Avoid, Land

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

Funny, American, Child

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Laurence J. Peter

Soldier, Seaman, Stories

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

Car, Christian, Makes

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

Work, Hell, Rise

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.
Laurence J. Peter

Doubt, Run, Danger

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

Teen, Parents, Wondering

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
Laurence J. Peter

Both, Looks, Ways

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

Smart, Sometimes, Taken

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

Beauty, Truth, Eye

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
Laurence J. Peter

Country, America, Getting

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter

Time, Past, Long

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
Laurence J. Peter

Miracles, Depend

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
Laurence J. Peter

Knows, Thinks, Expert

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

Nature, Time, Mother

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: September 16, 1919

Died: January 12, 1990

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