Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be happy.

Marquis de Sade

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Marquis de Sade

The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

Marquis de Sade

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Marquis de Sade

The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.

Marquis de Sade

If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.

Nikki Giovanni

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Nikki Giovanni

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

Nikki Giovanni

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

Mary McCarthy

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

Nicholas Sparks

It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.

Nicholas Sparks

She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues.

Nicholas Sparks

Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.

Ovid

Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

Ovid

If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

Paul Newman

You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.

Marya Mannes

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

Mary Wortley Montagu

one would suffer a great deal to be happy.

Mary Wollstonecraft

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

Mary Higgins Clark

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.

Margery Allingham

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

Oswald Chambers

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Michel de Montaigne

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

Michel de Montaigne

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Michel de Montaigne

Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.

Michel de Montaigne

It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

Michel de Montaigne

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

Michel de Montaigne

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Michel de Montaigne

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

Michel de Montaigne

Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.

Michel de Montaigne

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.