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Sydney J. Harris Quotes
«The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Arguments
| Keywords:
apparent, escape hatch, gracefully, hatch, hatching, opponent, swing, swing over
«There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
burying, hatchet, marker, markers, put up, site, sites
«Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
lovers, period, period of time, resemble, resembled
«Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Curiosity
| Keywords:
drawn-out, drawn, indifference, pried, pry, prying
«Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Arrogance
| Keywords:
amusingly, arrogant, young man
«Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.»
«If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?»
«It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.»