"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’"
― Sydney J. Harris
Topic(s):
Life
More From Sydney J. Harris
- "The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
- "Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage."
- "The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure."
More In Life
- "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."― George Washington Carver
- "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made."― Groucho Marx
- "The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should."― Samuel Wilson