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Happy Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come;…
- The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
- The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.
- Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
- Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage…
More Happy Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is. — Fred Armisen
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine