Sydney HarrisThinkers

Addiction is sometimes less annoying to deal with than addiction itself. Nobody can be so revoltingly smug as the man who has just given up smoking.

Anger is a measure of a man's character. If a small thing has the power to make one angry, it indicates something about one's size.

Character is something one forges for oneself... temperament is something one is born with and can only be slightly modified.

Communication is to be contrasted with information in that information is giving out whereas communication is getting through.

Education 1s 2rimary purpose is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time.

Happiness is a direction not a destination.

Information is to be contrasted with communication in that information is giving out whereas communication is getting through.

Maturity is that subtle line between childhood and adulthood that we pass only when we have stopped saying "It got lost," and start saying "I lost it."

New York City is where a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence, dominates. More than elsewhere, everybody in new york wants to be somebody.

Quitting smoking is distasteful. After all, nobody can be so revoltingly smug as the man who has just given up smoking.