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
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The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
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Two can live as cheaply as one - if they both have good jobs.
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
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If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
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My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
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The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
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Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
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It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.
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America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.