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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
— Laurence J. Peter
When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
— Laurence J. Peter
The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.
— Laurence Sterne
I have a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very nonsensically, and I will not balk my fancy.Accordingly I set off thus: — Laurence Sterne
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status
— Laurence J. Peter
The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.
— Laurence Overmire
Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.
— Margaret Laurence
liked the simple language and that nothing much happened. It wasn't all fancy but almost like an episode, like a summer holiday story, and
— Laurence Fearnley
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up.
— Laurence J. Peter
The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.
— Laurence Olivier
The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.
— Laurence J. Peter
The artist accepts the limitations of form, not with fear and dread, but as the starting point of creation.
— Laurence Boldt
When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
— Laurence Sterne
Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.
— Laurence Sterne
Endless is the search of truth.
— Laurence Sterne
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
— Laurence J. Peter
Reality is for people who can't face drugs.
— Laurence J. Peter
Anyone who doesn't love animals has a serious hole in the heart.
— Laurence Overmire
When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.
— Laurence Sterne
It's frightening to admit but if I lay off the lin it'a amazing how my love handles deplete. But is life without gin worth living?
— Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
We are the last generation with a real opportunity to save the world.
— Laurence Overmire
Either we pay the government's bills, or we leave them for our kids to pay. It's that simple.
— Laurence Kotlikoff
Life is enthusiasm, zest.
— Laurence Olivier
There are some who dream their lives away, but end up doing nothing, and others who do their lives away, and end up never dreaming.
— Laurence Overmire
When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
— Laurence Olivier
I had plenty of time,' he said, telling himself that was one of the saddest sentences there is.
— Laurence Cosse
Man's First Mistake: The Wheel
— Laurence J. Peter
May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.
— Laurence J. Peter
Del UsionIf you knew the person
He thinks he is
You'd have to admit
He's one very special guy. — Laurence Overmire
Freedom is an idea that no tyrant will ever crush.
— Laurence Overmire
Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.
— Laurence Stallings
When you look at a person who's different and see Yourself, then you begin to understand who and what God really is.
— Laurence Overmire
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.
— Laurence J. Peter
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
— Laurence Olivier
Every time I've been to Los Angeles, I've hated it. My brother works there, so I usually go each year for a holiday.
— Laurence Fox
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
— Laurence J. Peter
The with forbidden the death of warriors
— Laurence Yep
The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it.
— Laurence Steinberg
Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath.
— Laurence Yep
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
— Laurence J. Peter
The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.
— Laurence Tribe
By the deficits we may know the talents, by the exceptions we may know the rules, by studying patholgoy we may construct a model of health.
— Laurence Miller
Scratch an actor and you'll find an actor.
— Laurence Olivier
You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.
— Laurence J. Peter
We wear the mask that grins and lies.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.
— Laurence D. Fink
Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
— Laurence J. Peter
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
— Laurence Binyon
If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
— Laurence J. Peter
Steve Laurence is the only person that was on the first 'Tonight Show,' right to the end. He was a little high school boy, 14 years old.
— Jayne Meadows
Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.
— Margaret Laurence
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.
— Laurence Olivier
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.
— Laurence Olivier
To lose everything at such a glorious eternity is far sweeter than to win by plodding through a cautious, painless, featureless life.
— Laurence Gonzales
Home is where the college student home for the holidays isn't.
— Laurence J. Peter
The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.
— Laurence Tribe
An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.
— Laurence Sterne
Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
— Laurence Olivier
Many live by their wits but few by their wit.
— Laurence J. Peter
Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg.
— Margaret Laurence
Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish.
— Laurence J. Peter
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
— Laurence J. Peter
When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn't do what he liked. The
— Charlie Jane Anders
It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.
— Laurence Olivier
The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.
— Laurence Sterne
But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.
— Laurence Sterne
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,and has wit in it, and instruction too,
if we can but find it out. — Laurence Sterne
When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.
— Laurence J. Peter
Who had thought she was having
— Laurence Gonzales
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
— Laurence Sterne
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
— Laurence J. Peter
Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
— Laurence Sterne
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
— Laurence J. Peter
So, is there a "new economy?" The answer is: It depends. It depends on how you define new economy, and it depends on where you live.
— Laurence Meyer
He helps make me be the best person I can be. that's how I knew that he was the one. I'm better with him than I was without him.
— Selena Laurence
The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
— Laurence Gonzales
To write an article about someone and then to have that person murdered is disturbing.
— Laurence Shames
It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one ...
— Laurence Sterne
We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.
— Laurence J. Peter
What persons are by starts they are by nature.
— Laurence Sterne
Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
— Laurence Sterne
A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
— Laurence J. Peter
I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.
— Laurence J. Peter
A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
— Laurence Sterne
The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
— Laurence Olivier
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
— Margaret Laurence
Kindness comes with no price.
— Laurence Yep
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.
— Laurence Sterne
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
— Laurence Sterne
My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.
— Laurence Housman
Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.
— Laurence Overmire
The world is ashamed of being virtuous.
— Laurence Sterne
