Sydney J. HarrisThinkers

A Cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

A Cynic is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Democratic republic is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Education is tasked to turn mirrors into windows, that is to teach people not to reflect the moods and emotions of the times like mirrors, but rather, like a window, to bring light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester.

Genealogy is a perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

A Gourmet is usually little more than a glutton festooned with charge cards.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

A Liberal education 1s 2rimary purpose is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?."

Middle age is that time of life when a romantic dinner by candlelight seems less important than being able to read the menu clearly by lamplight.

A Realist is a man about to do something he is ashamed of.

A Realist is what one calls themselves when they are preparing to do something that they are secretly ashamed of doing.