Happiness and Misery

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

Lord Byron, in Happiness and Misery

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett, in Happiness and Misery

If we couldn't laugh, we'd all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett, in Happiness and Misery

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.

George Orwell, 1984, in Happiness and Misery

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Anaïs Nin, in Happiness and Misery and Wisdom and Ignorance

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.

John Stuart Mill, in Happiness and Misery

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

Henry Louis Mencken, in Happiness and Misery

Life is ours to be spent, not saved.

D. H. Lawrence, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant, in Happiness and Misery

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Jess Lair, in Happiness and Misery

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

Harmony seldom makes a headline.

Silas Bent, in Happiness and Misery

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman, in Happiness and Misery

Life is short. Live it up.

Nikita Khrushchev, (New York Times Magazine, August 3, 1958), in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

John F. Kennedy, in Happiness and Misery

For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

Even the the most tempting rose has thorns.

Tristan Eggener, in Happiness and Misery

Everyone smiles in the same language.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

Here's to your love, health, and wealth -- and time to enjoy each.

Unknown, (Spanish proverb), in Happiness and Misery