Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Canadian - Writer | September 16, 1919 - January 12, 1990

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

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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

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

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Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

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Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

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

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

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

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

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Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

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A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

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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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