Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Rauschenbusch

The influences that really make and mar human happiness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and goodwill into their relations.

W. Somerset Maugham

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

Yakov Smirnoff

When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

Yakov Smirnoff

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

Yakov Smirnoff

I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Neither rejoice nor lament prematurely; for whatever may happen, all will be well if we only have health; for happiness exists--merely in the imagination.

William Makepeace Thackeray

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?

William Makepeace Thackeray

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

William Makepeace Thackeray

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Yehuda Amichai

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Yehuda Berg

At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic.

Zig Ziglar

It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

Zig Ziglar

The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.

Rhonda Britten

Invest in the life you have to get the life you want.

If you want happiness, provide it to others

Venus Williams

In the last matches Serena just always played better, ... She won them. I was happy at least that a Williams won. Obviously I would have loved to have won, but for me it's like the past now.

I'm happy when they told me I had been traded to the Mets. I think this team has a lot of opportunities for me.

I'm happy we've got the upside, that we're not the underdog. We're tired of that.

I'm happy to report that at least the people who work for me are OK with that, ... They see they are making a difference.

I'm happy to be here and happy to be doing this.

I'm happy that we came. But we lost.

I'm happy with where I went to school and the people I went to school with. I have to say thanks to the people of Klamath Falls, for what they did for me.

I'm happy with where I went to school and the people I went to school with, ... I have to say thanks to the people of Klamath Falls, for what they did for me.

I'm happy with the split. It's kind of like thunder and lightning back there.

Fred Smoot

I'm happy with the scheme and the personnel. I'm just not happy with the results yet.

Alfonso Soriano

I'm happy with my new team. That's the most important thing to me.

Mark Thompson

I'm happy that he's not playing. Very, very happy.

Herbie Hancock

I'm happy if anything that I did takes the limelight.

I'm happy for the win. We've been off for quite a while.

Sergei Gonchar

I'm happy for him. We've all had a tough season, but, for a goalie, it's probably harder.