Laurence J. Peter Quotes

I have always believed that what goes around comes around.

I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing good that doesn't have bad consequences and nothing bad that doesn't have good consequences.

Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

Everything is a circle. We are each responsible for our own actions. It will come back.

The toe you step on today may be connected to the foot that kicks your ass tomorrow.

Nothing good happens without a penalty.

You can only breathe out if you breathe in.

There is no evil without its compensation.

What goes around comes back around.

What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.

Our mind is like a field, and performing actions is like sowing seeds in that field.

Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.

Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.

The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do.

But you don't do it. Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or bathing in the filth and the slime. It's the alternative that grown-ups all over the world pick. You balance off your walk through the hog-wallow against what it gains you. You choose the lesser of two evils and try to keep your good intentions in front of you. And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

There is no beauty without order.

If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

What goes around, comes around.

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.