Quotes from Sydney Harris

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

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

Maturity begins when you are content with knowing what you are saying is correct, rather than prove that someone else is wrong

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time -- what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

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

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

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