Laurence J. Peter - PETER'S QUOTATIONS (1977)

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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

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On second thought, maybe the atheist cannot find God, for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.

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.. if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

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I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.

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The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.

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We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.

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There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.

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Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

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In the country of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up.

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America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

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Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.

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The only valid rule about the proper length of a statement is that it achieve its purpose effectively.

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When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.

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If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

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Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.

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Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

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If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

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Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.

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America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

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The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.

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