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The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. - George Bernard Shaw We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. - George Bernard Shaw, Candida But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman Happiness and Beauty are by-products. - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman--Maxims for Revolutionists 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. - Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek) The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it. - Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek) 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. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Revolt of Islam (canto XI, st. 17) Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin. - Lydia Huntley Sigourney 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. - Beverly Sills 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. - Adam Smith (1) Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears. - Alexander Smith We are never happy: we can only remember that we were so once. - Alexander Smith 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. - Sydney Smith Fortitude, justice, and candor are very necessary instruments of happiness, but they require time and exertion. - Sydney Smith 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. - Sydney Smith Magnificent spectacle of human happiness. - Sydney Smith, America, "Edinburgh Review" Mankind are always happier for having been happier; so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. - Sydney Smith, Lecture on Benevolent Affections Happiness is unrepented pleasure. - Socrates No one can be said to be happy until he is dead. - Solon In the soul, when the supreme faculties move regularly, the inferior passions and faculties following, there arises a serenity infinitely beyond the highest quintessence of worldly delight. - Bishop Robert South The saddest birds a season find to sing. - Robert Southwell Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. - Benjamin Spock Be happy, but be so by piety. - Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein), Corinne (bk. XX, ch. III) Displaying page 10 of 12 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [10] 11 12
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