Sydney J. Harris

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.

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.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.