Quotations About / On: HAPPY

  • 41.
    Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
    (Herodotus (c. 484-424 B.C.), Greek historian. The Histories, 1.32.)
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  • 42.
    We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
    (Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), British critic. The Unquiet Grave, pt. 3 (1944, revised 1951).)
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  • 43.
    Souls of Poets dead and gone,
    What Elysium have ye known
    Happy field or mossy cavern,
    Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
    (John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Lines on the Mermaid Tavern (l. 1-4). . . The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Penguin.)
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  • 44.
    And though I know the fellow, I have spent
    Long time a-wondering when I shall be
    As happy as Cliff Klingenhagen is.
    (Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), U.S. poet. Cliff Klingenhagen (l. 12-14). . . Anthology of American Poetry. George Gesner, ed. (1983) Avenel Books.)
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  • 45.
    And happy lines! on which, with starry light,
    Those lamping eyes will deign sometimes to look,
    (Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. Amoretti; I. Happy ye leaves! (L. 5-6). . . The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil Dodge, ed. (1936) Houghton Mifflin.)
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  • 46.
    Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Intellect," Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847).)
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  • 47.
    Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.
    (Michael Herr (b. 1940), U.S. journalist. "Colleagues," sct. 3, Dispatches (1977).)
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  • 48.
    To the Ocean now I fly,
    And those happy climes that ly
    Where day never shuts his eye,
    Up in the broad fields of the sky:
    (John Milton (1608-1674), British poet. Comus; a Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle (l. 976-979). . . The Complete Poetry of John Milton. John T. Shawcross, ed. (1963, rev. ed. 1971) Doubleday.)
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  • 49.
    Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style.
    (Peter McKay (b. 1940), British Conservative politician. Evening Standard (London, Jan. 31, 1990).)
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  • 50.
    We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
    (Jean De La Bruyère (1645-1696), French writer, moralist. Characters, "Of the Heart," aph. 63 (1688).)
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