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
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.
topics conversation faster
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.
speech dictator print
A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
worst optimist make-the-best-of-it
An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
incompetence plus
Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
women wife months
The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.
imagination tragedy enough
If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.