Certain Quote by Michel de Montaigne

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy,…

— Thomas Huxley

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

— Robert Anthony

“There is something mystical in the proud man in the sense in which you use the words. You may be right from your point…

— Anton Chekhov

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep…

— Woodrow Wilson

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

— Fay Weldon

Man is never less miserable than when he appears to be deprived of everything.

— Vikrant Parsai

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

— Richard Baxter

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

— Henry Ford

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

— Alexandre Dumas

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

— Samuel Johnson