Sydney J. Harris - Quodid

About

Sydney J. Harris (September 14, 1917 – December 7, 1986) was 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. He also wrote an aperiodic feature called "Things I Learned En Route to Looking Up Other Things".

Quotes from Sydney J. Harris

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

—Sydney J. Harris

future cynicism past

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

—Sydney J. Harris

time memory regret

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

—Sydney J. Harris

knowledge age arrogance

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

—Sydney J. Harris

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice — that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it."

—Sydney J. Harris

childhood responsibility adulthood

Many people feel guilty about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.

—Sydney J. Harris

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

—Sydney J. Harris

The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it.

—Sydney J. Harris

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

—Sydney J. Harris