Quotes by : Laurence J. Peter

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

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

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

You can always tell a real friend when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a....

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.