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Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret. - Honore de Balzac Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop. - Honore de Balzac The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness. - Honore de Balzac The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share. - Honore de Balzac Human happiness depends mainly upon the improvement of small oppor-tunities. - James Lendall Basford There is no man but may make his paradise. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Fair Maid of the Inn (act I, sc. 1, l. 250) The greatest happiness of the greatest number. [Lat., La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero.] - Marchese de Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Trattato dei Delitti e delle Pene (Treatise of Crimes and of Punishment) (introduction) The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order. - Henry Ward Beecher Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. - Jeremy Bentham vol. X, p. 142 Happiness is good health and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give. - Tristan Bernard One cannot be fully happy until after his sixtieth year. - Carl Victor de Bonstetten Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty. Life culminates at sixty. - Christian Nestell Bovee No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in a mould and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us from heaven. She is a divine dew, which the soul feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of paradise. - Charlotte Bronte (used pseudonym Currer Bell) Happiness is the natural flower of duty. - Phillips Brooks When you look at your life the greatest happiness are family happinesses. - Joyce Brothers One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. - Rita Mae Brown People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. - H. Jackson Browne What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?] - to Cicero Marcus Junius Brutus, Cicero's Letters (I, 16) You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain. - Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar Happiness and virtue react upon each other,--the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. - George Burns It's no' in books, it's no' in lear, To make us truly blest; If happiness has not her seat And center in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest. - Robert Burns There comes forever something between us and what we deem our happiness. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Displaying page 2 of 12 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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