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Sydney J. Harris quote: "Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in."

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Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.


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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting t...
SYDNEY SMITH
Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, an...
SYDNEY SMITH
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
SYDNEY SMITH
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after ...
SYDNEY SMITH
No furniture is so charming as books.
SYDNEY SMITH
It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite dir...
SYDNEY SMITH
Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyo...
SYDNEY SMITH
I am not a farceur. I am not Blake Edwards.
SYDNEY POLLACK
Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
SYDNEY HOOK
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
SYDNEY SMITH
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of e...
SYDNEY SMITH
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
SYDNEY SMITH
The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did yo...
SYDNEY SMITH
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising wher...
SYDNEY SMITH
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
SYDNEY SMITH
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born b...
SYDNEY SMITH
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
SYDNEY SMITH
Granted there are instances in which children have been reared in an atmosphere of inconsistency whe...
SYDNEY SMITH
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but...
SYDNEY SMITH
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being...
SYDNEY SMITH
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our...
SYDNEY SMITH
I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?
SYDNEY PFIZER
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent...
Be what Nature ...
SYDNEY SMITH
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their g...
SYDNEY SMITH
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
SYDNEY SMILES
Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
SYDNEY SMITH
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friends...
SYDNEY SMITH
Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious...
SYDNEY SMITH
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
SYDNEY SMITH
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good con...
SYDNEY SMITH
It is safest to be moderately base -- to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is ge...
SYDNEY SMITH
The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply ...
SYDNEY SMITH
Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory.
SYDNEY SMITH
Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my f...
SYDNEY SMITH
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep ...
SYDNEY SMITH
A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would...
SYDNEY SMITH
I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life.
SYDNEY SMITH
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather t...
SYDNEY SMITH
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned...
SYDNEY SMITH
His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes...
SYDNEY SMITH
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
SYDNEY SMITH
The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else...
SYDNEY SMITH
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not bo...
SYDNEY SMITH
Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no m...
SYDNEY SMITH
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
SYDNEY SMITH
Gardens are a form of autobiography.
SYDNEY EDDISON
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
SYDNEY SMITH
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended yo...
SYDNEY SMITH
I don't have a style. I've never thought of myself as a stylist like the visual stylists I a...
SYDNEY POLLACK
I love mixing and matching patterns, styles old and new, feminine and masculine and drawing inspirat...
SYDNEY WAYSER
Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
SYDNEY MADWED
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your uni...
SYDNEY MADWED
Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this all...
SYDNEY SMITH
Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means t...
SYDNEY POLLACK
During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA coul...
SYDNEY BRENNER
As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
SYDNEY SMITH
I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glasswar...
SYDNEY BRENNER
As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.
SYDNEY SCHANBERG
The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
ALGERNON SYDNEY
That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
ALGERNON SYDNEY
Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin...
ALGERNON SYDNEY
No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
ALGERNON SYDNEY
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passio...
ALGERNON SYDNEY
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the esta...
ALGERNON SYDNEY
God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate...
ALGERNON SYDNEY
Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must ...
ALGERNON SYDNEY
All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.
ALGERNON SYDNEY
A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... th...
ALGERNON SYDNEY
In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology...
SYDNEY BRENNER
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
SYDNEY SMITH
People ask me over and over how is it that I work with stars. How do you work with Barbra Streisand,...
SYDNEY POLLACK
Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogar...
SYDNEY POLLACK
When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman.
SYDNEY POLLACK
It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
SYDNEY SMITH
That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.
SYDNEY SMITH
I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, rem...
SYDNEY SMITH
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that...
SYDNEY SMITH
American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from ...
SYDNEY POLLACK
The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can ...
SYDNEY GREENSTREET
There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer.
SYDNEY POLLACK
Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism.
SYDNEY POLLACK
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
SYDNEY SMITH
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature inten...
SYDNEY SMITH

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