Laurence J. Peter Men Quotations

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

A man convinced against his will is not convinced.

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

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

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.

All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.

Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?