"People who think they're generous to a fault……" — Sydney J. Harris
"People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault."
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141 Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris has 141 quotes on this site.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently…
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Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and…
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Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on…
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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need…
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Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.
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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."
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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is…
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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
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Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and…
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More Fault Quotes
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one of 1,333 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
— Teresa of Avila
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
— Teresa of Avila
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If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always…
— Richard Bach
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that…
— James Truslow Adams
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
— Samuel Beckett
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I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in…
— Kristen Bell
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What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change…
— Yogi Berra
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting…
— Valerie Bertinelli
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And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course.…
— Lewis Black
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Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame…
— Anita Brookner
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It is not someone's fault if they succeeded, it is someone's fault if they failed.
— Herman Cain
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