happiness Quotes

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.