Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
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“Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
Source: Peter's People and Their Marvelous Ideas
Source: The Peter Principle
Source: The Peter Principle
“The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.”
“A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.”
“do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.”
“Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.”
“Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.”
Source: The Peter Pyramid, Or: Will We Ever Get the Point?
“In the country of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.”
“Middle age is when the best exercise is one of discretion.”
“It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.”
“. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.”
“Two can live as cheaply as one - if they both have good jobs.”
“It usually takes two people to make one of them angry.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.”
Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science
“If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.”
Source: The Peter prescription: how to be creative, confident & competent
“There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.”
“When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.”
“Home is where the college student home for the holidays isn't.”
“We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.”
“Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.”
Source: The Peter Principle
“If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.”
Source: Peter's people