Quotes from Laurence J. Peter

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Don't worry about middle age ?????

Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.

Men now monopolize the upper levels depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

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.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.