Happy Quotes - page 2

I'm a kind of a paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. (J. D. Salinger)
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess. View quote
Samuel Johnson
A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short. View quote
André Maurois
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
The only really happy folk are married women and single men. View quote
H. L. Mencken
To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy. View quote
Hans Christian Andersen
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. View quote
Robert Anthony
Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. (Aphra Behn)
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. View quote
Samuel Richardson
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. View quote
George Orwell
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. View quote
Jonathan Swift
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling. View quote
Roman Polański
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy. View quote
Spike Milligan
No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
If you want to be happy, be. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. View quote
Siegbert Tarrasch
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects. (Albert Einstein)
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. View quote
John Updike
We don't laugh because we're happy, we're happy because we laugh. View quote
William James
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. View quote
Herbert Spencer