24 Quotations by Sydney J. Harris
- 1. A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
- 2. An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A re ...
- 3. Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
- 4. Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
- 5. Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not bor ...
- 6. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
- 7. If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
- 8. If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once.
- 9. Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
- 10. Love that is not expressed in loving action does not really exist.
- 11. Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
- 12. Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.
- 13. Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it ...
- 14. Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commenc ...
- 15. Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nucle ...
- 16. People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
- 17. People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" woul ...
- 18. Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head ag ...
- 19. Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that ...
- 20. Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
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