Subject: Emotions » Happiness (Page 3)

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

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

(1961 – 1994) comedian

The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

Money brings some happiness; but after a certain point, it just brings more money.

(1927 – 2018) playwright & screenwriter

Marriage is bliss… Ignorance is bliss… Ergo…

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

I can’t do two things at once; I can’t have intercourse and enjoy myself at the same time.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

Happiness is… finding two olives in your martini when you’re hungry.

(1925 – 2005) television host

Too much of a good thing… can be wonderful.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

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

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

What pleases men most is old wine and young women.

(c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC) Greek historian

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

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

He's grinning like a mule eating briars.

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

typographer

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 your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

(1925 – 2005) television host

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

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

Ecstasy: Happiness with its clothes off.