Laurence J. Peter1919–1990The quotations of
Laurence J. Peter
Canadian educator
1919–1990
23 quotes, most often on Comedy, Success and Clever Jabs.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 333Going to church doesn’t make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
A man doesn’t know what he knows until he knows what he doesn’t know.
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 362Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
