Famous Quotes & Sayings

Earl Long

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.

Edgar Guest

The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.

Bobby McFerrin

If I can bring joy into the world, then I'll be successful.

Benjamin Franklin

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Benjamin Franklin

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

Benjamin Franklin

I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

Benjamin Franklin

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

Benjamin Franklin

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Benjamin Franklin

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Benjamin Franklin

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Benjamin Franklin

On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it

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.

Garth Brooks

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

Helen Keller

Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.

We did make a lot of progress from last week so I'm happy about that.

Jessica White

I truly am living out what true joy and happiness means.

Jane Austen

You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay If I were a fairy godmother, I would give you your heart's desire in an instant And I would wipe away your tears and tell you not to cry "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of"

Jane Austen

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Jane Austen

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

Jane Austen

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Jane Austen

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Jane Austen

I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

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.