Quote

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Laurence J. Peter

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Laurence J. Peter
Age: 70 †
Born: 1919
Born: September 16
Died: 1990
Died: January 12
Psychologist
Teacher
Vancouver
British Columbia
Laurence Johnston Peter
Laurence Peter
Made
Friends
Always
Jobs
Tell
Doesn
Permanent
Done
Friendship
Feel
Fool
Feels
Emotional
Real
Friend

More quotes by Laurence J. Peter

Image
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
An optimist expects his dreams to come true a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
I inherited my ability from both parents my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
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.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us
Laurence J. Peter
Image
Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?
Laurence J. Peter
Image
The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world
Laurence J. Peter
Image
A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
Laurence J. Peter
Image
Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.
Laurence J. Peter