Quotations About / On: HAPPINESS

  • 41.
    The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
    (Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893), U.S. president. Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States, vol. III, p. 269, ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Diary (28 March 1875).)
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  • 42.
    Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.
    (Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British author. The Spectator, No. 261 (1711).)
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  • 43.
    I try to forget what happiness was,
    and when that don't work, I study the stars.
    (Derek Walcott (b. 1930), West Indian poet, playwright. "Flight," sect. 11, The Schooner, in The Star-Apple Kingdom (1980).)
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  • 44.
    Boy, take my advice, and never try to invent any thing but—happiness.
    (Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author. "The Happy Failure" (1854), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). Spoken by the failed inventor.)
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  • 45.
    The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored.
    (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, dramatist. Sayings in Prose (posthumous).)
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  • 46.
    The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.
    (Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. First published in 1953. Malone, in Malone Dies, p. 100, Grove Press (1970).)
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  • 47.
    In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
    (Franz Kafka (1883-1924), German novelist, short-story writer. Published in Shorter Works, vol. 1, ed. and trans. by Malcolm Pasley (1973). The Collected Aphorisms, no. 68 (October 1917-February 1918).)
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  • 48.
    Men who seek happiness are like drunkards who can never find their house but are sure that they have one.
    (Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778), French historian, playwright.)
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  • 49.
    O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through
    another man's eyes!
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Orlando, in As You Like It, act 5, sc. 2, l. 43-5. The happiness is that of his brother Oliver, who is to marry Celia.)
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  • 50.
    Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, New York (1984).)
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