Depends Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less on their dispositions than on their fortunes

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

— John Locke

Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

— Bill Mauldin

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in…

— Danny Boyle

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

— Boethius

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

— Jonathan Swift

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging…

— George Bernard Shaw

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom…

— Benjamin Franklin

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

— Blaise Pascal