Quotes About Happiness

I love men who make me laugh.

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I'm very lucky man.

Man does not live by GNP alone.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it.

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience