Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. - Laurence J. Peter
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. - Laurence J. Peter
My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying. - Laurence J. Peter
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. - Laurence J. Peter
A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours. - Laurence J. Peter
Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean. - Laurence J. Peter
It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. - Laurence J. Peter
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. - Laurence J. Peter
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing. - Laurence J. Peter
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. - Laurence J. Peter
Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Laurence J. Peter
An economist is an expert who will know tommorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. - Laurence J. Peter
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. - Laurence J. Peter
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. - Laurence J. Peter
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. - Laurence J. Peter
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. - Laurence J. Peter
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. - Laurence J. Peter
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. - Laurence J. Peter
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. - Laurence J. Peter
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. - Laurence J. Peter
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. - Laurence J. Peter
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Laurence J. Peter
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. - Laurence J. Peter
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. - Laurence J. Peter
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. - Laurence J. Peter
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. - Laurence J. Peter
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. - Laurence J. Peter
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one. - Laurence J. Peter
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. - Laurence J. Peter
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? - Laurence J. Peter
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street. - Laurence J. Peter
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. - Laurence J. Peter