A Quote by Laurence J. Peter

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Blind Country Goof King One-Eyed Still Up

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Laurence J. Peter
Canadian - Writer
September 16, 1919 - January 12, 1990

In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.

Desiderius Erasmus

In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]

George Herbert

In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is king

Michael Grant

In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.

Ken Harrelson

In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

Efren Ramirez

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Desiderius Erasmus

The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial faculties--that is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sightnor with madness.

Angela Carter

Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?

John Kenneth Galbraith

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will probably end up dating the best looking blind chick.

Dana Gould

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. In the darkness the man with a candle is an easy target.

Michael Grant

I mean, truly, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and if you can't spot that CM Punk is magic from the moment he walks in the door, then you're reading a playbook from an antiquated writer.

Paul Heyman

We still are America though. We're still a country that is a country of social mobility. We're still a country of immigrants. We're still a country with common ancestors. And reviving the civics of America and the idea that we're going to be united, at least not right now, but in some common future, and talking in that hopeful way that Martin Luther King did, that Abraham Lincoln did, seems to me that's the way.

David Brooks

Donald Trump is appealing to, that whole expression, everybody who asked me, why is Trump able to win in those 16 people? There's a whole expression. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. I'm not very good at prognosticating but I would not be surprised if he's the nominee.

Joe Biden

Black Eyed Peas music appealed to everybody and that's why we incorporated EDM influences, dance influences, house influences, and we mashed it up with the Black Eyed Pea melodic pop sensibility that still has bounce to it.