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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
— Sydney J. Harris
See him as the child he was.
— Sydney J. Harris
Success is just a little more effort.
— Sydney J. Harris
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
— Sydney J. Harris
Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.
— Sydney J. Harris
Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
— Sydney J. Harris
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
— Sydney J. Harris
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
— Sydney J. Harris
Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.
— Sydney J. Harris
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
— Sydney J. Harris
Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer - for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.
— Sydney J. Harris
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
— J.L. Witterick
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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It calls for deciding things on their own merit, not because you read it or were told it or grew up believing it.
— Sydney J. Harris
Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.
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The way in which we say something is often more important than what we say.
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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
— Sydney J. Harris
The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
— Sydney J. Harris
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to reamin the same but get better ...
— Sydney J. Harris
Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.
— Sydney J. Harris
The only way to avoid trouble is to avoid living.
— Sydney J. Harris
The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.
— Sydney J. Harris
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
— Sydney J. Harris
All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
— Sydney J. Harris
The people who are suspicious of certain things are the very ones who are the most capable of doing that of which they are suspicious.
— Sydney J. Harris
Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
— Sydney J. Harris
The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
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The cynic is goodhearted beneath his facade, whereas the sentimentalist is flint-hearted beneath his.
— Sydney J. Harris
But if "beauty" is in the eye of the beholder, so is "obscenity.
— Sydney J. Harris
It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.
— Sydney J. Harris
Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.
— Sydney J. Harris
Being yourself is not remaining where you are, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure.
— Sydney J. Harris
Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.
— Sydney J. Harris
In a real sense, all of us are "the parents" of all young children - because we help shape the culture and determine its values.
— Sydney J. Harris
We must also learn that time itself is indivisible, that every act is a blending of past experience, present situation and future expectancy.
— Sydney J. Harris
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
— Sydney J. Harris
Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.
— Sydney J. Harris
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
— Sydney J. Harris
People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
— Sydney J. Harris
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
— Sydney J. Harris
Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
— Sydney J. Harris
We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
— Sydney J. Harris
God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.
— Sydney J. Harris
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
— Sydney J. Harris
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
— Sydney J. Harris
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
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
Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
— Sydney J. Harris
Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
— Sydney J. Harris
There is no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
— Sydney Harris
Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be ...
— Sydney J. Harris
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
— Sydney J. Harris
When a man's position in life depends upon his having a certain opinion, that's the opinion he will have.
— Sydney J. Harris
Being able to do exactly as one pleases is the surest way to remain perpetually unpleased.
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There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
— Sydney J. Harris
When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?
— Sydney J. Harris
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?
— Sydney J. Harris
Regret for the things we have done will be tempered by time. It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
— Sydney J. Harris
A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.
— Sydney J. Harris
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
— Sydney J. Harris
By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
— Sydney J. Harris
The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
— Sydney J. Harris
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.
— Sydney J. Harris
Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.
— Sydney J. Harris
Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.
— Sydney J. Harris
The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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Regret for things we have done can be tempered by time, it is regret for things we have not done that is inconsolable.
— Sydney J. Harris
Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.
— Sydney J. Harris
When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.
— Sydney J. Harris
As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood
and an almost total inability to practice it. — Sydney J. Harris
and an almost total inability to practice it. — Sydney J. Harris
A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
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The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
— Sydney J. Harris
Patriotism is wanting what is best for your country. Nationalism is thinking your country is best, no matter what it does.
— Sydney J. Harris
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
— Sydney J. Harris
Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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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
All love relationships are controlled by an element of fear - that of acting, or becoming, unworthy of the loved one's approbation.
— Sydney J. Harris
Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.
— Sydney J. Harris
If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."
— Sydney J. Harris
Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.
— Sydney J. Harris
A child owes respect to a parent, but there is no natural obligation to like a parent - unless the parent makes himself likable as a person.
— Sydney J. Harris
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
— Sydney J. Harris
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway
— Sydney J. Harris