Laurence J. Peter Quotations | Page 2

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.

Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.

When you see yourself quoted in print and you’re sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.

Ignorance is the mother of research.

Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.