Epithet Quote by Edward Gibbon

You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in…

— Horace

Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his amorous passions…

— Edward Gibbon

Man was made for joy and woe Then when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven…

— William Blake

“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but…

— Christopher Hitchens

Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

— Thomas a Kempis

Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven…

— William Blake

The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a God within.

— Louis Pasteur

“Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the only sort…

— Herodotus

Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has…

— Vincent de Paul

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

— Solon

The world assumes that we are very happy with high mansions, fine carriages, servants and attendants, huge investments, and concubines. But he who is…

— Munshi Premchand