Subject: Emotions » Happiness (Page 4)

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.

Happiness is the China shop; love is the bull.

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

My grandfather used to make home movies and edit out the joy.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

He's grinning like a mule eating briars.

Happiness equals reality minus expectations.

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

I ain’t in a happy frame of mood.

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

Ecstasy: Happiness with its clothes off.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

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

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

(1872 – 1970) British philosopher, mathematician, historian & social critic

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

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

My wife and I were happy for twenty years… before we met.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

(1965 – ) American comedian, actor, writer & producer

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Real happiness is when you marry a girl for love and find out later she has money.

(1928 – 2003) English entertainer

What pleases men most is old wine and young women.

(c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC) Greek historian

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

(1901 – 1970) American journalist & author

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

(1821 – 1880) French novelist

Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking.

(1961 – 1994) comedian

Money doesn’t buy happiness; but happiness isn’t everything.

(1938 – 1979) American actress