Laurence J. Peter

Laurence J. Peter

21 quotes

Laurence J. Peter, a Canadian educator, is widely remembered for insights that continue to resonate with readers everywhere. Their thinking spans from Funny to Work, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Discover 25 of Laurence J. Peter's most memorable quotes, ranging across Funny, Work, Intelligence, Best, and Women. One standout: "Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence."

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Art

All Quotes by Laurence J. Peter

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Education

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Funny

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Patience

“It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.”

— Laurence J. Peter

Valentinesday

“Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”

— Laurence J. Peter

Anger

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Art

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Car

“A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.”

— Laurence J. Peter

Funny

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Nature

“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.”

— Laurence J. Peter

Friendship

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Intelligence

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Alone

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Women

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Teen

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Business

“If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.”

— Laurence J. Peter

Funny

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Work

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Beauty

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Best

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Failure