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| Author | Quote | E-Mail this quote |
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| Alan Alda | It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. | |
| Albert Schweitzer | Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. | |
| Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) | I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness | |
| Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another | |
| Archbishop Richard Whately | Happiness is no laughing matter. | |
| Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) | Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation or creed. | |
| Bertrand Russell | Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. - (Conquest of Happiness) | |
| Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) | I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. | |
| Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) | Positive pleasure is a mere idea. To be happy at any one point we must have suffered at the same. Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed. | |
| George Orwell (1903 - 1950) | Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. | |
| George Santayana (1863 - 1952) | Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience. | |
| Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977) | It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy. | |
| H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) | The only really happy folk are married women and single men. | |
| H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) | Every man is thouroughly happy twice in his life; just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one. | |
| J. D. Salinger | I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. | |
| Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) | A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. | |
| Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) | Happiness is the perpetual possesion of being well deceived. | |
| Kin Hubbard | It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. | |
| Margaret Bonnano | It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. | |
| Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972) | Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. | |
| Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) | Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. | |
| Stephen Millich (1941 - ) | MORE will not make you happy. | |
| Thomas Szasz | Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attibuted to children, and by children to adults. |
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