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Happy Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A…
- It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain…
- Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay…
- Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
- The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
- Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
- That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while.…
- The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
- That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to…
- Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!
- Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.
- I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience;…
- I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due…
- To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every…
- Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
- It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of…
- Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made…
- By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man,…
- That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
- Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
- To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.
- Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and…
- To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
- Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining…
- Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made…
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