Quotes About Happiness

One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.

Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.

A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

Every man's the same, he wants the sunshine in his name.

I was the happiest man in the world, happier than Bill Gates

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

No man is happy but by comparison.

The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE

The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.

A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.

If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

No happy man bases his decisions on fear.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.