Top 15 Laurence J. Peter Quotes

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.