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happiness money business
Charles Dickens Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
happiness law-of-attraction chains
Charles Dickens We forge the chains we wear in life.
happiness delight tricks
Charles Dickens Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
happiness kings ambition
Charles Caleb Colton If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.
happiness poverty bread
Charles Caleb Colton To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
happiness clouds broken
Charles Caleb Colton What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.
happiness mistake ambition
Charles Caleb Colton Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
happiness men views
Charles Caleb Colton Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of the thing; another may possess much of the thing, but very few of the material. In this particular view of it, happiness had been beautifully compared to the man in the desert--he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack.
suggestions compromise never-compromise
Arthur Bloch The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
suggestions ignored can-do
Tony Campolo I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.
suggestions arguing married
Mark Twain Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.
suggestions liberalism ten-commandments
Malcolm Bradbury If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
suggestions moses sinai
Ted Koppel What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.
virtue
Alan Chadwick Patience is not a virtue!
virtue
David Brooks There is a virtue in shamelessness.
virtue crushed
Baroness Orczy Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
virtue thrifty ifs
William Shakespeare If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.
virtue scapes calumny
William Shakespeare Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
virtue
Bertolt Brecht Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.
virtue democratic candidates
Bernard Meltzer One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.
virtue repetition
Eliza Haywood Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ...
virtue crime mayhem
Edgar Rice Burroughs The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue