Subject: Emotions » Happiness

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Marriage is bliss… Ignorance is bliss… Ergo…

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer

Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking.

(1961 – 1994) comedian

Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; and by then it was too late.

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By all means, marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

(469 BC – 399) BC Greek philosopher

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family… in another city.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

If I could drop dead right now, I’d be the happiest man alive.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy; one is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

Happiness is the China shop; love is the bull.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

My wife and I were happy for 20 years… then we met.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

A laugh is a smile that bursts.

(1949 – ) English nurse

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.

(1918 – 2002) Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet & playwright

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

My grandfather used to make home movies and edit out the joy.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet