If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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
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
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time.
Sydney J. Harris
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
Sydney J. Harris
We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
Sydney J. Harris
Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something, without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong.
Sydney J. Harris
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
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
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
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