Sydney J. Harris - Time Quotes

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Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners, where troubles fester; and the whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Sydney J. Harris
The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.

Sydney J. Harris
It is the single-purposed man who reaches the goal most surely and swiftly — and then has the most time to find out that having a single purpose is not a satisfactory goal in life.

Sydney J. Harris
The beauty of spacing children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones — which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Sydney J. Harris
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
It is true that the first book of the Bible commands us to "be fruitful and multiply" — but that was depicting a time when the total human population of the Earth was two.

Sydney J. Harris
Life is unfair in that a plane crash may kill innocent people or spare some worthless ones and maim the useful. Anything can happen to anybody at any time, regardless of merit or worth. But precisely because of this we have a special obligation to see that fairness works wherever we have the power to make it work.

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The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

Sydney J. Harris