(128 quotes found)
“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one”
George Bernard Shaw
“I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.”
Cher
“We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.”
Winston Churchill
“If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are”
Charles de Montesquieu
“He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.”
William R. Alger
“If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”
“I really believe i was happier when i slept on a park bench in Central Park than during all the years of the 'perfect lover' stuff.'”
Rudolph Valentino
“Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.”
William Wordsworth
“The happier the moment the shorter.”
Pliny The Elder
“And feel that I am happier than I know.”
John Milton