"The man who is always waving the flag……" — Laurence J. Peter
"The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for."
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105 Quotes by Laurence J. Peter
Laurence J. Peter has 105 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- 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.
More Always Waving Quotes
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- I'm always smiling, always waving. I'm just a natural show-off. — Kristie Phillips