The best Quotes by Laurence J. Peter

The best Quotes by Laurence J. Peter

Laurence Johnston Peter (September 16, 1919 – January 12, 1990) was a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist" who is best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

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Intelligence Recovery & Leisure

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

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

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California has officially announced that jaywalking is now no longer a crime. So congratulations to the Californians who like walking places. This is great news for the six of you.

Trevor Noah in The Daily Show - October 2022

New Mexico. It's another state. I mean, it's like California, just less traffic.

Lalo Salamanca in Better Call Saul - Season 6 Episode 5

California New Mexico

We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.

Lex Luthor in Superman

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Gloria Swanson

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Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

Linus Torvalds

California Helsinki

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

Joan Didion

Things are tough all over, cupcake. An' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike... except in California.

Silk Spectre in Watchmen -

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Justice California

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

Los Angeles California

That's the great thing about California, you can almost go to the mountains and almost go to the beach on the same day.

Leonard Hofstadter in The Big Bang Theory - Season 11 Episode 11

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You know what's remarkable? That England looks in no way like Southern California.

Austin Powers in Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me

England & Great Britain California

It's the edge of the world
And all of Western civilization
The sun may rise in the east
At least it's settled in a final location
It's understood that Hollywood sells Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication, Album: Californication

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I drank when I was pregnant with you, you turned out fine. There's everybody saying 'don't drink, don't smoke'. I swear - Texas is turning into California.

Sheldons Großmutter "Meemaw" in Young Sheldon - Season 1 Episode 9

California Texas

In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.

Woody Allen

Television California Trash TV

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to California - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Vancouver is home. I spent a huge amount of time here as a kid growing up with my mom, with my grandparents who lived here.

Justin Trudeau

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I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

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You can leave Vancouver, but it will never leave you.

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Vancouver - which is kinda the same.

If one of the Vancouver Canucks walked in here, my panties would drop so hard, there would be a hole in the floor halfway to China.

Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother - Season 5 Episode 14

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

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Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Natalie Portman

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Intelligence Men & Women Singles & Dating

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Failures & Mistakes Intelligence

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

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Foolishness Intelligence Self-Confidence Doubt

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

Herman Melville

Recovery & Leisure

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Dylan Thomas

Recovery & Leisure

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

Cristiano Ronaldo

Recovery & Leisure Training

I've always liked quiet people. You never know if they're dancing in a daydream or if they're carrying the weight of the world.

John Green (Author)

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Recovery & Leisure

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Dean Martin

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Alcohol Funny Quotes

"There's perfect men around every corner", said God an made the Earth round.

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Funny Quotes Singles & Dating

Working out makes people more comfortable with their naked bodies. So does Tequila.

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Funny Quotes Tequila Being naked

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

George Carlin

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Funny Quotes Santa Claus Bad Girls

Act on inspiration when it strikes.

Hwei, the Visionary in League of Legends

Success is one part inspiration, nine parts desperation.

Magic: The Gathering () - Crude Rampart

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Success Despair Inspiration

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

Rod Serling

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Writing Ideas Inspiration

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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