Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryant H. McGill

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.

Jane Austen

I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.

Carl Davis

There are no happy times at Happy Times .

Woody Allen

The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.

Brian Weiss

Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.

Charles Bukowski

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

Sydney Smith

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Sydney Smith

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

David McKenzie

We've still got a long way to go ... but I'm happy with my position at this point.

Arthur Ashe

Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering on.

Amanda Peet

If you take 'Cheers' and 'Seinfeld' and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers and everything to gel.

Jerry Summers

You do not be a victim of a gang rape and then go to a football game and cheer them on.

Thomas Hughes

From behind the shadow of the still small voice — more awful than tempest or earthquake — more sure and persistent than day and night — is always sounding full of hope and strength to the weariest of us all, Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

Thomas S. Monson

Wherefore, be of good cheer, and do not fear, for I the Lord am with you, and will stand by you.

Ronnie Barker

Barker was a great writer, a great actor and a great loss to us all. I think God must have needed cheering up.

Christopher Hitchens

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

George Harrison

The smile on your face is sometimes out of place, don't mind no frowns, cheer down.

Eugene Field

Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.

Alfred Jarry

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

Tom Shadyac

I think laughter is a sacred act.

Evan Esar

Many people will laugh at the drop of a hat, especially if the man is still in it.

Georges Bataille

The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.

Catullus

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

Kate Millett

Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.

Linda Ellerbee

I think laughter may be a form of courage.

Terry Tempest Williams

Community is extremely intimate. When we talk about humor, I love that you know when you're home because there is laughter in the room, there is humor, there is shorthand. That is about community.

Paul McCartney

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.