More from Dr. Laurence J. Peter

  1. The hardest thing in life is to learn which bridge to cross and which to burn.
  2. Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
  3. In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.
  4. Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise.
  5. Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.
  6. When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
  7. Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.
  8. Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

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