222 Quotes by Laurence J. Peter

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

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

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

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

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

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.