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Happy Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell…
- A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.
- This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead…
- Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
- The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
- Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
- A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
- We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
- Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and…
- The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because…
- Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain…
- Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
- Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby
- The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
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