Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harriswas an American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and, later, the Chicago Sun-Times. He wrote 11 books and his weekday column, “Strictly Personal,” was syndicated in approximately 200 newspapers throughout the United States and Canada...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 September 1917
CountryUnited States of America
money men cases
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
men likes failing
As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.
men betrayed world
The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
smart men lazy
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
men cynical may
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
wise wisdom men
A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? "I got it from my bad judgment."
men advice mind
By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
men practice ideas
As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.
children philosophy men
No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
laughter blessed men
God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.
hero character men
If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.
attitude believe men
Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.
men coats looks
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
war unique men
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.