Sydney J. Harris Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Funny, Witty, Two

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• Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.

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  Time, World, Care

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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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  Education, Responsibility, Parenting

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• Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

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  Advice, Kind, Trouble

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• "Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.

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  Strong, War, Violence

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

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  Funny, Witty, Time

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• We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

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  Pain, Suffering, Withdrawal

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• Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?

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  People, Immortality, Eternal Life

  Sydney J. Harris (1957). “Majority of one”

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• A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? "I got it from my bad judgment."

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Happiness is a direction, not a place.

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  Happiness, Happy, Being Happy

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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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  Growth, Experts, Want

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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• Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

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  Country, Humility, Pride

  "Pieces of Eight". Book by Sydney J. Harris, 1982.

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• We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

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  Able, Renounce, Possession

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

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  Believe, Passion, Prejudice

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Compassion, Justice, Judging

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• Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

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  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  Sydney J. Harris (1982). “Pieces of Eight”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

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  Self, Discipline, Talent

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

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  Book, Effectiveness, Broken

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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• As we grow older, we should learn that these are two quite different things. Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify. Some people have easy temperaments and weak characters; others have difficult temperaments and strong characters. We are all prone to confuse the two in assessing people we associate with. Those with easy temperaments and weak characters are more likable than admirable; those with difficult temperaments and strong characters are more admirable than likable.

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  Strong, Character, Two

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

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  Enemy, Lovers, Time Love

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• The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.

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  Courage, Be Who You Are, World

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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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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  Relationship, Confidence, Self Esteem

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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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  Forgiveness, Heartbroken, Site

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• 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.

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  Appreciation, Loss, Swings

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• No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.

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  Children, Philosophy, Men

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