Top 148 Quotes & Sayings by Laurence J. Peter
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian writer Laurence J. Peter.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
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.
Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.
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.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
A man convinced against his will is not convinced.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.
Prejudice is one of the world's greatest labor-saving devices; it enables you to form an opinion without having to dig up the facts.
Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.
The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.
Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?
Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.
. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought
Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.
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