222 Quotes by Laurence J. Peter

You could generally inform a real close friend: when you have manufactured a idiot of on your own he does not truly feel you've finished a long lasting job.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish.

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

Middle age is when the best exercise is one of discretion.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

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