Happy Quotes - page 5

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. (Edmund Burke)
Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. View quote
John Ruskin
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest. View quote
Peace Pilgrim
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find? View quote
Samuel Johnson
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. View quote
Henry Miller
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window-or break down a door. View quote
Brooke Shields
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. (George Bernard Shaw)
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.' View quote
Steven Wright
I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking. View quote
A. A. Milne
Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive. View quote
B. F. Skinner
You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae. View quote
Paul Walker
Be happy. It's one way of being wise. View quote
Colette
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. (Jodi Picoult)
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. View quote
George Santayana
The only way to be happy is to love to suffer. View quote
Woody Allen
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. View quote
Hugh Downs