Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
SYDNEY J. HARRISNobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
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There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
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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.
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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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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.
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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
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A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’
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