Quotes from Laurence J. Peter

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

Ignorance is the mother of research.

. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.

Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.

A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?

A man convinced against his will is not convinced.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

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

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.