Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times. Some people are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.


Sydney J. Harris

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The purpose of any charity is simply to turn people's mirrors into windows. An outward view of the w...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflect...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Most people like mirrors; what they do not like, is people, who are mirrors.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simulta...
SHAKTI GAWAIN
Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE
Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON
When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me...
GARY F EVANS...
Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Refl...
AYN RAND
Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themse...
ISOBELLE CARMODY
Jinki nazron ki khidkiyon se unki rooh ko jhaakne ki ijaazat ho, mohobbat hai mujhe har us shaks se....
HENNA SOHAIL
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL
Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo...
CHARLES DICKENS
It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Though he walked and breathed, and about him living leaves and flowers were stirred by the same cool...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is...
C. JOYBELL C.
It has 27 mirrors. But no one is really capable of seeing or saying how many mirrors there are in th...
KATINKA DE MONTAL
If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS...
May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
A simple and heart-warming fable, one might think - in which case, one would reveal oneself to be an...
J.K. ROWLING
My refusal to remove the book from the library was backed by a majority of the Board of Governors. I...
J.K. ROWLING
Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
KHALED HOSSEINI
It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors,...
SAMIRA WILEY
You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,' said Frodo. 'I will give you the One Ring, if y...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his [sic!] time but most people are far behi...
EDGARD VARèSE
The best antidote to the woes of the world is the right education! The world is full of several woes...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.
PEARL BAILEY
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us -- not our effects on others.
PEARL BAILEY
Forget the smoke and mirrors. From a glossy sales presentation, you can believe that anything is pos...
MARTIN DAVIS
Editor:"Donation To Penn State to Field Div-I Hockey Teams,” 9.18.10: Athletics play a role in the...
GENE DETROYER
In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN
What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO
They waited for the elevator. " Most people love butterflies and hate moth," he said. "But moths are...
THOMAS HARRIS
When people talk of Ghosts I don't mention the Apparition by which I am haunted, the Phantom that sh...
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU
We are excited to forge a partnership with Microsoft. Microsoft's hosted products and services on th...
JEFF STIBEL
Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and fut...
GAIL LUMET BUCKLEY
Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Let go! Gollum,' he said. 'This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you'l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Frodo gave a cry, and there he was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Another year is ending, but something is pending
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Newspapers are the world's mirrors.
JAMES ELLIS
Животът ми е пълен провал, но никой не го забелязва , за�...
FRéDéRIC BEIGBEDER
Most visitors to Amsterdam will wander into the red-light district out of sheer curiosity. The narro...
DAVID HEWSON
Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS...
The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI
If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS...
i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL
We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.
STEPHEN KING
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT
Walk, run, cycle - When you live inside your head for such long periods of time, you have to open th...
TWINKLE KHANNA
It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA
Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT

More Sydney J. Harris

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but m...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements,but mo...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realis...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head ag...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out a...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as a...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The most important tactic in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your ...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a necessary evil, it begins to look more and mor...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their ...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive v...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A re...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with hi...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disap...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers ...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not bor...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but ...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but m...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your o...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do t...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matt...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things t...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The two words Ôinformation' and Ôcommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify q...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "compared to what?"
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? ...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their f...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying ...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every ...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Live life so completely that when death comes to you like a thief in the night, there will be nothin...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why ...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to sp...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?&#...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundr...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all -...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder-and turn quickly to my typewriter.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledg...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend ...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commenc...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn t...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disap...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that...
SYDNEY J HARRIS
Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, th...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a los...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe a...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for lea...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The two words Ôinformation' and Ôcommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify q...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled ...
SYDNEY HARRIS
Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head ag...
SYDNEY HARRIS
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'.
SYDNEY HARRIS
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
SYDNEY HARRIS
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that...
SYDNEY HARRIS
When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?".
SYDNEY HARRIS
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive v...
SIDNEY J. HARRIS
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
SIDNEY J. HARRIS
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disap...
SIDNEY J. HARRIS
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
SIDNEY J. HARRIS
The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it.
SIDNEY J. HARRIS
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that...
SIDNEY J. HARRIS
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks i...
SIDNEY J. HARRIS
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority...
SIDNEY J. HARRIS
For Gods sake, do not drag me into another war! I am worn down, and worn out, with crusading and def...
SYDNEY SMITH
To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
SYDNEY SMITH
The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least t...
SYDNEY SMITH
He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go ac...
SYDNEY BRENNER
Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.
SYDNEY POLLACK
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The ...
SYDNEY SMITH
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
SYDNEY SMITH
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
SYDNEY SMITH
Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 The grea...
SYDNEY SMITH
Good friends are good for your health.
SYDNEY SMITH
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
SYDNEY SMITH
One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer all th...
SYDNEY SMITH
We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into th...
SYDNEY SMITH
Oh, herbaceous treat! 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat; Back to the world he'd turn hi...
SYDNEY SMITH
We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.
SYDNEY SMITH
The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.
SYDNEY SMITH
A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the ...
SYDNEY SMITH
To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.
SYDNEY SMILES
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