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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| Any philosophy that can be put "in a nutshell" belongs there. -- Sydney J. Harris | |
| You k'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke? -- Joel Chandler Harris, proverbs of Uncle Remus | |
| It is easier to be a "humanitarian" than to render your own country its proper due; it is easier to be a "patriot" than to make your community a better place to live in; it is easier to be a "civic leader" than to treat your own family with loving understanding; for the smaller the focus of attention, the harder the task. -- Sydney J. Harris | |
| The Crown is full of it! -- Nate Harris, 1775 | |
| World tensions have, if anything, increased in the quarter century since H.G. Wells uttered his glum warning: "There is no more evil thing on earth than race prejudice, none at all. I write deliberately -- it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." -- Sydney Harris | |
| Harris's Lament: All the good ones are taken. | |
| Blue paint today. [Funny to Jack Slingwine, Guy Harris and Hal Pierson. Ed.] | |
| I can't die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver. -- Phil Harris | |
| It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case. -- Sydney J. Harris | |
| Nirvana? That's the place where the powers that be and their friends hang out. -- Zonker Harris | |
| Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in. -- Sydney J. Harris | |
| You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a "realist," he is preparing to do something he is secretly ashamed of doing. -- Sydney Harris | |
| Were they afraid that "e" being the most widely used letter in the English language was going to war out thir xpnsiv kyboards if thy usd it all th tim? - Mike A. Harris on linux-kernel | |
| The `loner' may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself. -- Sidney Harris | |
