Sydney J. Harris Quotes

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
Sydney J. Harris

Knowledge, Brain, Small

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.
Sydney J. Harris

Important, Leave, Face

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Sydney J. Harris

Philosophy, Put, Belongs

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
Sydney J. Harris

Time, Lovers, Period

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
Sydney J. Harris

Cannot, Secret, Curiosity

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
Sydney J. Harris

Nothing, Easy, Next

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
Sydney J. Harris

Fault, Generous

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
Sydney J. Harris

Fact, Born, Somebody

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
Sydney J. Harris

Best, Put, Sometimes

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
Sydney J. Harris

Art, Made, Living

The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney J. Harris

Beauty, Time, Mistakes

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
Sydney J. Harris

Put, Point, Site

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 14, 1917

Died: December 8, 1986

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