Laurence J. Peter Quotes
- If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
- The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
- When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
- The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.
- An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
- May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.
- Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?
- Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
- The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
- Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form
- There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
- Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.
- Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.
- Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.
- The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.
- Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
- The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world
- Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
- Reality is for people who can't face drugs.
- My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.