Laurence J. Peter Quotes - Page 3

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.

You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.

Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?

There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.

A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

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

There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.

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.

We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.

Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.

If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.