It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
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Laurence J. Peter
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About Laurence J. Peter
Laurence Johnston Peter was a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist" who is best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle.
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Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.