Sydney Harris
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.
The Bible contains 6 admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a…
A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine…
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or…
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
I'm not popular enough to be different.
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains.
The man who regards life as meaningless is not merely unfortunate, but almost disqualified for life.
The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.
When you become senile, you won't know it.
War - an act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to…
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Men rise from one ambition to another. First they seek to secure themselves from attack, and then they attack others. movers in los angeles
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
Beware the writer who always encloses the word reality in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
Nothing noble is done without risk.
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come…
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes by chance.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-?-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value. dentist los…
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
What is more harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and all the weak: Christianity.
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.
Freedom is not America's gift to the world, it is the Almighty God's gift to every man and woman in this world.
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Every author should weigh his work and ask, 'Will humanity gain any benefit from it?'
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
A man doesnt want a child he is a dead beat dad. A woman doesnt want a child she is pro choice.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.
We cannot be both the world?s leading champion of peace and the world?s leading supplier of arms.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing…
Too many poets delude themselves by thinking that the mind is dangerous and must be left out. Well, the mind is dangerous and must be left in.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck;…
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
The urge for destruction is also a creative urge.
The thought of being president frightens me. I do not think I want the job.