Sydney J. Harris

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

anger


Sydney J. Harris

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.

beauty


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 remain the same but get better.

change


Sydney J. Harris

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.

communication


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.

computers


Sydney J. Harris

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

education


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.

government


Sydney J. Harris

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.

great


Sydney J. Harris

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

happiness


Sydney J. Harris

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.

knowledge


Sydney J. Harris

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

life


Sydney J. Harris

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.

life


Sydney J. Harris

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'.

love


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 remain the same but get better.

love


Sydney J. Harris

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.

marriage


Sydney J. Harris

Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

money


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