(43 quotes found)
“The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.”
William Lyon Phelps
“People usually are the happiest at home.”
William Shakespeare
“If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.”
“He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.”
William R. Alger
“The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.”
William Proxmire
“Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.”
Cyril Tourneur
“The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.”
W. R. Inge
“The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts”
“The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.”
“The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.”
Chuck Barris
