Sidney J. Harris

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist, he is preparing to do something he is secretly ashamed of doing.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. 21.The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard", I am always tempted to ask: "Compared to what?".

Demokracja jest jedynym systemem, który uporczywie pyta władzę, czy jest tą, która powinna być.

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