Laurence Peter

Quotes

• Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

• A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

• A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

• A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

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

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

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

• Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

• Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

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

• Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions -- everyone but a school bus driver.

• Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

• Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.

• If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

• Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

• The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

• There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

• There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

• An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.