Quotes By Laurence J. Peter

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

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.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

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

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

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

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

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

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

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

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

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.