Sydney J. Harris

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

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

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.