Sydney J. Harris

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

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

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.