Laurence J. Peter

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

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

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?