Sidney J Harris quotes

" The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. " # Relaxation # Time and Time Management # Rest

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

" Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. " # Regret # Time and Time Management # Anger

" The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. " # Computers

" Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves -- so how can we know anyone else? " # Self discovery # Love # Virtue

" Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother? " # Age and Aging # Death and Dying # Life and Living

" An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. " # Ideals and Idealism # Reality # Cynics and Cynicism

" If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once. " # Devil # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading

" When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. " # Disagreements # Pain # Fear

" A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive " # Forgiveness # Winners and Winning # Courage