List of Sydney J. Harris Quotes

Gourmet: Usually Little More Than A Glutton Festooned With Credit Cards.

A 'penchant For Telling The Truth' Can Cripple A Candidates Chances Faster Than Being Caught In Flagrante Delicto With The Governor's Wife.

The Principal Difference Between Love And Hate Is That Love Is A Irradiation, And Hate Is A Concentration. Love Makes Everything Lovely; Hate Concentrates Itself On The Object Of Its Hatred.

Christianity Is Not A "spiritual" Religion, Like Some Religions Of The East. It Is An Intensely "practical" Religion, Having Its Moral Roots In The Practicality Of Judaism. It Was Not Designed To Change The Way Men Think Or Believe As Much As To Change The Way They Act.

Just About The Only Interruption We Don't Object To Is Applause.

People Decline Invitations When They Are "indisposed" Physically, And I Wish They Would Do Likewise When They Feel Indisposed Emotionally. A Person Has No More Right To Attend A Party With A Head Full Of Venom Than With A Throat Full Of Virus.

The Lusts Of The Flesh Can Be Gratified Anywhere; It Is Not This Sort Of License That Distinguishes New York. It Is Rather, A Lust Of The Total Ego For Recognition, Even For Eminence. More Than Elsewhere, Everybody Here Wants To Be Somebody.

Knowledge Fills A Large Brain; It Merely Inflates A Small One.

Somebody Who Never Got Over The Embarrassing Fact That He Was Born In Bed With A Lady.

A Winner Rebukes And Forgives; A Loser Is Too Forgiveness Breaks The Chain Of Causality Because He Who Forgives You -- Out Of Love -- Takes Upon Himself The Consequences Of What You Have Done. Forgiveness, Therefore, Always Entails A Sacrifice.

Nothing Is As Easy To Make As A Promise This Winter To Do Something Next Summer; This Is How Commencement Speakers Are Caught.

Law Is Order In Liberty, And Without Order Liberty Is Social Chaos.