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Quotes by Laurence J. Peter

Early to bed early to rise work like hell and advertise.

Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.

The cave-dwellers wife complained that he hadnt dragged her anywhere in months.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

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

A man doesnt know what he knows until he knows what he doesnt know.

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

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

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

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Speak when you are angry - and youll make the best speech youll ever regret.

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

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

If two wrongs dont make a right, try three.

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

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.

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