Quotes by Sydney J. Harris

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

Our 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.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

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.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, ‘I was wrong’.

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.

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.