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Famous Laurence J. Peter Quotes
“It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.”
“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.”
“Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.”
“The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.”
“There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.”
“The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.”
“An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.”
“The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.”
“A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.”
“Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.”
