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. HARRISEvery rule in the book can be broken, except one – be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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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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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
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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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And to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.
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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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Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.
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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
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The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
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The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light – and the next tunnel.
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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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