More from Dr. Laurence J. Peter

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

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