Subject: Emotions » Happiness (Page 2)

Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get.

(1926 – 1983) American comedian & singer

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy; one is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

There must be one day above all others in each life that is the happiest

Corollary: What if you’ve already had it?

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

(1901 – 1970) American journalist & author

He's grinning like a mule eating briars.

I ain’t in a happy frame of mood.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

My shrink told me that my happiness was stress related.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

(1775 – 1817) English novelist

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

(1903 – 1987 diplomat, playwright, journalist & politician

I can’t do two things at once; I can’t have intercourse and enjoy myself at the same time.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

There’s no such thing as fun for the whole family.

(1954 – ) comedian & television actor

My wife and I were happy for 20 years… then we met.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

By all means, marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

(469 BC – 399) BC Greek philosopher

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

If I was doin’ any better, I’d have ta hire somebody to help me enjoy it!

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Are you so unobservant that you do not yet realize that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.

(1979 – ) American actress, comedian & writer

When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet