A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

— Laurence J. Peter

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Early to bed early to rise work like hell and advertise.

— Laurence J. Peter