Subject: Emotions » Happiness (Page 3)

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

(1903 – 1987 diplomat, playwright, journalist & politician

Happiness equals reality minus expectations.

(1937 – 2014) American co-host of radio show “Car Talk”

I ain’t in a happy frame of mood.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

(1918 – 2002) advice columnist

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

(1875 – 1965) German/French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician & medical missionary

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

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

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

(1821 – 1880) French novelist

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

A laugh is a smile that bursts.

(1949 – ) English nurse

My shrink told me that my happiness was stress related.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Cheerfulness: The art of concealing your true feelings.

Ecstasy: Happiness with its clothes off.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

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

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

There must be one day above all others in each life that is the happiest

Corollary: What if you’ve already had it?

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

(1965 – ) American comedian, actor, writer & producer

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

(1961 – 1994) comedian

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

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