Laurence J. Peter Quotes - Famous Quotations and Funny Sayings

"It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other."
Benjamin Disraeli &bull Agents

"Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel."
Samuel Johnson &bull Night

"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."
Anatole France &bull Human Nature

"The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business."
George Bernard Shaw &bull Gossip

"The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping."
Virginia Woolf &bull Words

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(1919-1990) Canadian teacher and writer.

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Men now monopolize the upper levels… depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Don't believe in miracles, depend on them.

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

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

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

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