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Quotes About Happiness

A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.
~ Muriel Barbery
I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible.
~ Priscilla Presley
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.
~ Og Mandino
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
~ William James
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
~ Clarence Darrow
Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.
~ Anthony Trollope
The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
~ Aristotle
A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
~ Aristotle
Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.
~ Aristotle
For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
~ Aristotle
A man's wealth can...also be measured by what he doesn't have and doesn't want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.
~ Bill Bonner
I'm so happy with the show. There's nothing in this life I'll ever regret - bad or good. I look back, learn from it, and be a better man the next day.
~ Luis D. Ortiz
Where a man can live, he can also live well.
~ Marcus Aurelius
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.
~ Mark Twain
Mystery is the wine of this universe. It makes us dizzy and makes us feel happy! Man needs enigma so that he can get rid of the dullness of the reality!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
~ Muhammad Ali
The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.
~ Nevil Shute
The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
~ Paul McCartney
Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]
~ Ovid
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.
~ Izaak Walton
If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
~ James Boswell
Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog
~ James Thurber
To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau