Laurence J. Peter
Laurence J. Peter
Laurence Johnston Peterwas a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist", best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth16 September 1919
CountryCanada
two people angry
It usually takes two people to make one of them angry.
holiday home college
Home is where the college student home for the holidays isn't.
baths hot deals
Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.
children giving rope
Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.
feet persons
When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.
pretty-woman photograph
There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.
government hierarchy incompetence
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.
men discovery events
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.
order climbing ladders
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.
lost poetry-is lost-in-translation
Poetry is that which is lost in translation.
topics conversation faster
Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
hate people giving
We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.
laughing lasts humour
He laughs best whose laugh lasts.
mistake punctual
The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.