26 Quotes By Laurence J. Peter

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Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
Laurence J. Peter on alone

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter on anger

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

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. Peter on beauty

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter on best

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
Laurence J. Peter on best

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

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

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter on education

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Laurence J. Peter on failure

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 on friendship

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
Laurence J. Peter on funny

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
Laurence J. Peter on funny

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter on funny

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
Laurence J. Peter on funny

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Laurence J. Peter on intelligence

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
Laurence J. Peter on intelligence

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
Laurence J. Peter on nature

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Laurence J. Peter on patience

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Laurence J. Peter on teen