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More Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Almost 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.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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.
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?
