Subject: Emotions » Happiness (Page 4)

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

Happiness is the China shop; love is the bull.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

(1908 – 1976) publisher & author

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

(1903 – 1987 diplomat, playwright, journalist & politician

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.


The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

(1862 – 1937) novelist & short story writer

Ecstasy: Happiness with its clothes off.

Happiness equals reality minus expectations.

(1937 – 2014) American co-host of radio show “Car Talk”

If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?

(1956 – ) American movie actor

He's grinning like a mule eating briars.

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

(1918 – 2002) advice columnist

Money brings some happiness; but after a certain point, it just brings more money.

(1927 – 2018) playwright & screenwriter

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

(1954 – ) comedian & television actor

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

(1672 – 1719) English essasyist, poet & politician

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

(1925 – 2005) television host

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist