The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes,… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a "spiritual" religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely "practical" religion, having its moral roots… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical)… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share
Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share
Middle 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 Copy Share
The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share
Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share
“...it calls for deciding things on their own merit, not because you read it or were told it or grew up believing it.” — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share
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… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share
Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share
“The cynic is goodhearted beneath his facade, whereas the sentimentalist is flint-hearted beneath his.” — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share
“Like all persecuted minority groups, they strike back by forming cabals, by “taking over” certain spheres of activity (in the arts, for instance), and… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share
