Happiness Quotes

• "The haunts of happiness are varied and rather unaccountable, but I have more often seen her among little children, and home firesides, and in country houses, than anywhere else--at least, I think so."
  By: Sydney Smith
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• "Fortitude, justice, and candor are very necessary instruments of happiness, but they require time and exertion."
  By: Sydney Smith
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• "All mankind are happier for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it."
  By: Sydney Smith
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• "We are never happy: we can only remember that we were so once."
  By: Alexander Smith
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• "Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears."
  By: Alexander Smith
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• "If the chief part of human happiness arises from the consciousness of being beloved, as I believe it does, these sudden changes of fortune seldom contribute much to happiness."
  By: Adam Smith (1)
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• "A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down."
  By: Beverly Sills
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• "There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin."
  By: Lydia Huntley Sigourney
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• "Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray."
  By: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
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• "Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth."
  By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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• "Ye seek for happiness--alas, the day! Ye find it not in luxury nor in gold, Nor in the fame, nor in the envied sway For which, O willing slaves to Custom old, Severe taskmistress! ye your hearts have sold."
  By: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Revolt of Islam (canto XI, st. 17)
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• "The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it."
  By: Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek)
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• "Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton."
  By: Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek)
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• "Happiness and Beauty are by-products."
  By: George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman--Maxims for Revolutionists
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• "The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound."
  By: George Bernard Shaw
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• "A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth."
  By: George Bernard Shaw
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