Sydney J. Harris
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
-Sydney J. Harris
age
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
-Sydney J. Harris
anger
The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
-Sydney J. Harris
beauty
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
-Sydney J. Harris
change
The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.
-Sydney J. Harris
communication
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
-Sydney J. Harris
computers
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
-Sydney J. Harris
education
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
-Sydney J. Harris
education
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
-Sydney J. Harris
government
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
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great
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
-Sydney J. Harris
happiness
Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.
-Sydney J. Harris
knowledge
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
-Sydney J. Harris
life
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
-Sydney J. Harris
life
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
-Sydney J. Harris
love
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
-Sydney J. Harris
love
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
-Sydney J. Harris
marriage
Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
-Sydney J. Harris
money
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
-Sydney J. Harris
power
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
-Sydney J. Harris
success
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
-Sydney J. Harris
time
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
-Sydney J. Harris
time
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
-Sydney J. Harris
time
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