Claims Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

— Joyce Grenfell

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

— Anonymous

If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing end of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“Perfect Joy (excerpts) Is there to be found on earth a fullness of joy, or is there no such thing? . . . What…

— Thomas Merton

“The pursuit of happiness undeniably includes the pursuit of material well-being: minimally, being able to secure basic necessities. It can be overwhelming to consider…

— Matthew Desmond

Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to…

— Ruskin Bond

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who…

— Arnold Bennett

Personally, I've never had it as a goal in life to be happy. Seems impossible to achieve. Even the Declaration of Independence seems to…

— Jonathan Ames

I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they…

— Anonymous

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

— Piero Scaruffi

“Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly…

— Ayn Rand