01c. 1951 ADThere's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.Sydney J. Harris / quote ↗
02c. 1951 ADPeople who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not.Sydney J. Harris / quote ↗
03c. 1951 ADThe true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.Sydney J. Harris / quote ↗
04c. 1951 ADRegret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.Sydney J. Harris / quote ↗
05c. 1951 ADNinety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves their abilities their frailties and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.Sydney J. Harris / quote ↗
06c. 1951 ADThe two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.Sydney J. Harris / quote ↗
07c. 1951 ADMiddle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'Sydney J. Harris / quote ↗
10c. 1951 ADIf a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?Sydney J. Harris / quote ↗
11c. 1951 ADAlmost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.Sydney J. Harris / quote ↗
12c. 1951 ADA winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.Sydney J. Harris / quote ↗
13c. 1951 ADDemocracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.Sydney J. Harris / quote ↗
14c. 1951 ADMen make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.Sydney J. Harris / quote ↗
15c. 1951 ADThe primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.Sydney J. Harris / quote ↗
16c. 1951 ADWhen I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'Sydney J. Harris / quote ↗
17c. 1951 ADOur 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.Sydney J. Harris / quote ↗
