Laurence J. Peter
Laurence J. Peter
Laurence Johnston Peterwas a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist", best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth16 September 1919
CountryCanada
holiday home college
Home is where the college student home for the holidays isn't.
baths hot deals
Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.
children giving rope
Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.
feet persons
When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.
pretty-woman photograph
There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.
government hierarchy incompetence
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.
order climbing ladders
We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.
lost poetry-is lost-in-translation
Poetry is that which is lost in translation.
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Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
laughing lasts humour
He laughs best whose laugh lasts.
mistake punctual
The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.
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A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
school half lions
Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.
worst optimist make-the-best-of-it
An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.