“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Happiness
Socrates on Marriage
E. V. Lucas on Tardiness
“I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.” Continue reading
John Stuart Mill on Happiness
“Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.” Continue reading
Robert G. Ingersoll on Happiness
“The way to be happy is to make someone happy.” Continue reading
Leo Rosten on Happiness
“Money can’t buy happiness, but neither can poverty.” Continue reading
Helen Keller on Comfort
“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.” Continue reading
Louis L’Amour on Contentment
“Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.” Continue reading
Hobart Brown on Money and Happiness
“Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.” Continue reading
Edith Wharton on Happiness
“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.” Continue reading
C. P. Snow on Happiness
“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.” Continue reading
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