Laurence Johnston Peter (September 16, 1919 – January 12, 1990) was a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist" best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle.
As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.
Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
Ignorance is the mother of research.
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.
You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it.
When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.
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.
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.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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.
Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.
The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world