Laurence J. Peter

Laurence J. Peter

"The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months."
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"The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months."
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"Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions."
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"Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does."
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"Early to bed early to rise work like hell and advertise."
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"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings."
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"When I want your opinion I'll give it to you."
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"He laughs best whose laugh lasts."
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"Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat."
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"You can always tell a real friend when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."
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"Facts are stubborn things but statistics are more pliable."
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"In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
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"Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom."
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"The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance."
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"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."
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"Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing."
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"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."
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"My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying."
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"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it."
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"A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."
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"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."
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