Top 148 Quotes & Sayings by Laurence J. Peter - Page 3

Two can live as cheaply as one - if they both have good jobs.

If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.

Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing.

You could generally inform a real close friend: when you have manufactured a idiot of on your own he does not truly feel you've finished a long lasting job.

It usually takes two people to make one of them angry.

No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel - anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform effectively under such difficult conditions.

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

When you see yourself quoted in print and you’re sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.

They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.

A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.

Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.

There are two sorts of losers - the good loser, and the one who can't act.

Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form

Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.

Home is where the college student home for the holidays isn't.

Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.

Lead, follow or get of the way

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

Middle age is when the best exercise is one of discretion.

A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.

All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.

If you can't keep up, drag them down to your level.

The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up.

The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.