Laurence J. Peter
Democracy is a process by which
the people are free to choose
the man who will get the blame.
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults
by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
If you don't know where you are going,
you will probably end up somewhere else.
Speak when you are angry
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway
is usually a poor judge of distance.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave
when first we practice to believe.
Fortune knocks but once,
but misfortune has much more patience.
A bore is a fellow talking
who can change the subject back to his topic
faster than you can change it back to yours.
Education is a method whereby
one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man
how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have
a fair chance at being incompetent.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow
why the things he predicted yesterday
didn't happen today.
Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty,
but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.
A pessimist is a man who looks both way
before crossing a one-way street.
American is a country that doesn't know where it is going,
but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
The incompetent with nothing to do
can still make a mess of it.
Every man serves a useful purpose.
A miser, for example, makes wonderful ancestor.
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
It is wise to remember that you are one of those
who can be fooled some of the time.
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
The Peter Principle
Laurence J. Peter 
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