Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Benjamin Franklin

In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money.

Anton Chekhov

At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

Anton Chekhov

The bourgeoisie loves so-called "positive" types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one's innocence, to be a beast and still be happy.

Anton Chekhov

Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

Anton Chekhov

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Anton Chekhov

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

Anton Chekhov

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

Anton Chekhov

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

Baltasar Gracian

Surfeits of happiness are fatal.

Baltasar Gracian

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Ariel Gore

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

Ariel Gore

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

Ariel Gore

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?

Anthony Trollope

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

Diane Duane

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

Diane Arbus

Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.

Diane Arbus

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

Diane Ackerman

Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.

Delphine de Girardin

For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.

Simon Cowell

We're proud, we're happy, and it's nice that she remembers the show as well.

We're just happy to be playing another week. Let's tee it up and see how we do.

Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.

William Shakespeare

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

William Shakespeare

I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

William Shakespeare

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

William Shakespeare

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

William Shakespeare

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

We're quite happy with how we are doing in Laughlin at Harrah's.

We're quite happy to come and gatecrash things.

Abraham Lincoln

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.