Sydney J. Harris Quotes

Sydney J. Harris
American Journalist
Born: Sep 14, 1917
Died: Dec 8, 1986
Life People Somebody Think Time You
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The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. Sydney J. Harris
Time You Relax
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 Hate World Three Say Neither Moral Physical Feats Wrong Excluded Return Nor Intellectual Tasks Achievements Include Acts Hardest
When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?' Sydney J. Harris
Life Life Is Hard Somebody Say Tempted Always Am Hear Ask Hard Compared
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?' Sydney J. Harris
Life Life Is Hard Somebody Sigh Tempted Always Am Hear Ask Hard Compared
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 Words Giving Out Signify Through Getting Quite Often Different Information Used Different Things Things Two
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
Wisdom Time Regret Tempered Did Things
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? Sydney J. Harris
Angry You Anger Power Indicate About Something Small Small Thing Make Does Size Your Thing
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
Will Men Think Danger Computers Like Real Begin
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. Sydney J. Harris
Forgiveness Winner Petty Too Loser Timid Forgive Forgives Rebuke
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. Sydney J. Harris
Assume Intolerance Superiority Most Acceptable Without Permits Personal Egotism Form Boasting Us Socially
Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else? Sydney J. Harris
Life People World Not Knowing Strangers Else Complete Virtues Way Ninety Ourselves Ability Per Through Almost Almost All Know Most Knowing How Real Woe Go Anyone Anyone Else Cent Themselves Us Even
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 Time Change Hate Better Our Dilemma Remain Get Same Same Time Want Really Things
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress. Sydney J. Harris
Enemy Progress Greatest False Stagnation
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey. Sydney J. Harris
Art Obey Made Living Consists Must Knowing Impulses Which
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 Democracy Ought System Only Powers Persists Whether Asking
When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. Sydney J. Harris
You Pain Others Run Someone Directly Proportional Uncomfortable Disagreeable He Feel Himself Sure Within May Inflict Us Who Amount
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. Sydney J. Harris
Too Much Face Argument Important Too Side Hatch He Over Most Most Important Thing Without Opponent Important Thing Leave Loss Escape Gracefully Being The Most Important Much Next Your Apparent Swing Right Thing
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time. Sydney J. Harris
Time Enemies Other Over Come Period Well Lovers Resemble Each
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 Mind Liberal Pleasant Liberal Education Spend Purpose Primary Make Leisure Place Which
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
Man Old Arrogant Own Young Idea Nobody His Discovered Just Young Man Who Thinks
Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady. Sydney J. Harris
Somebody Embarrassing Born Fact Never He Over Got Bed Lady Who
Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice. Sydney J. Harris
Best Sometimes Practice Way Only Put Idea Effective Effective Way
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one. Sydney J. Harris
Knowledge Small Merely Brain Large Fills
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
Winter Nothing Summer Promise Easy Something Make How Caught Commencement Next Speakers
People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault. Sydney J. Harris
People Fault Think Only Generous Who

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