222 Quotes by Laurence J. Peter

A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.

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

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

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

An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.