People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
SYDNEY J. HARRISAlmost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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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.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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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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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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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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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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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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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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And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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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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