Laurence J. Peter
do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.Collection: Law
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.Collection: Cat
Prejudice is one of the world's greatest labor-saving devices; it enables you to form an opinion without having to dig up the facts.Collection: Prejudice
In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.Collection: Warning
Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.Collection: Political
Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.Collection: Inspirational
The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.Collection: Temptation
It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.Collection: Wise
My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.Collection: Healing
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.Collection: Retirement
Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?Collection: Jobs
The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.Collection: Mistake
Poetry is that which is lost in translation.Collection: Lost
If you can't keep up, drag them down to your level.Collection: Work
Middle age is when the best exercise is one of discretion.Collection: Exercise
Home is where the college student home for the holidays isn't.Collection: Home
They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.Collection: Leadership
A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.Collection: Ideas
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up.Collection: Country
Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.Collection: Hot
No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel - anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform effectively under such difficult conditions.Collection: Camels
The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.Collection: Women
Two can live as cheaply as one - if they both have good jobs.Collection: Jobs
When you see yourself quoted in print and you’re sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.Collection: Sorry
Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.Collection: Work
If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.Collection: Inspirational
Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.Collection: Dirty
If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.Collection: Success
Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.Collection: Children
Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish.Collection: Ignorance
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.Collection: Writing
I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.Collection: Mother
A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.Collection: Men
A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.Collection: Inspirational
Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship .Collection: Leadership
Ignorance is the mother of research.Collection: Mother
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.Collection: Adventure
Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.Collection: Age
Many live by their wits but few by their wit.Collection: Wit
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.Collection: Men
The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.Collection: Arguing
The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.Collection: Men
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.Collection: Men
Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.Collection: Competition
An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.Collection: Optimist
When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.Collection: Feet
Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.Collection: Men
Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.Collection: Work
If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.Collection: Imagination