Quotes by : Laurence J. Peter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.