WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1988, PAGE 7 PAGE SEVEN NAME DROPPING Ihave always envied those writers who could inteject pithy quotations into their ,writing, the kind of quotation that could sum up an entire thesis in a.few direct hard-hitting words. But I could never find them. The standard wvork on the subject - Bartlett's Quotations - just never seemed to have what I wanted. Well I finally found the book I was looking for - it's Peter's Quotations by Laurence Peter the same person who wrote the Peter Principle. That particular book, published almost twenty years ago, remains to me the only book on management which is worth the paper it's printed on. It, like a good quotation, was brief and to the point - only a hundred and fifty pages of biting sarcastic analysis on the state of modern management - "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetance." The Peter Principle is itself interlaced with an array of apt quotations. Obviously Dr. Peter had an extensive and well-organized collection, and some years later, he published that collection for people less organized than himself. And so here are just a small sample of of the thousands of priceless quotes contained in the 550 pages of Peter's Quotations. A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. Laurence J. Peter Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. Aaron Levenstein He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination. Andrew Lang Statistics are for losers. Scotty Bowman The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole. Edgar Schoaff Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. Herbert Hoover If Patrick Henry thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation. The Old Farmer's Almanac The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. Sir Ralph Richardson Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth - to see it like it is, and to tell it like it is - to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. BOKSRE ULCSHO,11 Richard Nixon accepting the Republican presidential The Brock Street Public School was built at Port Whitby in 1916 and closed in 1969. Ricar Nxo acetig h nomubicntrioni68 Among its principals were Margaret Kennedy, who died earlier this year, and Harry Jermnyn. nomination in 1968.It is now used for storage by the Durham Board of Education. A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. Joseph Stalin Whitby Archives photo 10 YEARS AGO I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let themWHTYF EPRS have it. Dwight Eisenhower *SotFneibsbe hsna rgesv osraiecniaefrOtroRdn There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole frtenx eea lcin government working for you. Will Rogers *TeDraiAe osn uhrt iloe t fie nWib oorw I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be aSholiBroin Ail work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow. Evan Esar 2 ER G Children are unpredictable. You neyer know what incon-fomteTusaMy9163dionfth sistency they're going to catch you in next. Franklin Jones WIB EKYNW One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today isuiia sscainmein tCbug tomorrow. Vincent Foss PoiehueGereanneecmedclsnBunStettrghC teilPrk fNeyer put off till tomorrow what you candothldasate toorw Mr wi *Rîtn uiabs tre ontutono 000 qaefotadtint t wrhue Working with people is difficult, but not impossible. Peter Drucker 100 YEARS AGO A farm is a hunk of land on which, if you get up early enough from the Friday May 11, 1888 edition ofthe mornings and work late enough nights, you'll make a fortune WHITBY CHRONICLE if you strike oil on it. "Fibber" McGee - ifyoustrke o onit."Fiber"McGe *The Collegfiate Institute bas selected a May Queen and a Dux (leader of the boys) to bestow im a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy gifts on their fellow students. taste. Grace Meaiuato fPyo lc Brooklin businessmen hope the proposed Western Ontario Railway from Port Hope to Lake Metalious, author ofPeyton PlaceHuron will pass through the village. Sixty years ago, I knew everything; now I know nothing; There is some local bittýrness that John Dryden of Brooklin was not chosen as Ontarios education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. first Mnister of Agriculture, overMr. Drury ofSimcoe County. W•T ClDurantli Andrew M. Ross selhs a pair of a l wool pants at bis dry goods store for $2.75.