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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
— Carl Jung(Attribution unverified)
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
— John Locke(Attribution unverified)
Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
— Mark Twain(Attribution unverified)
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
— Tacitus(Attribution unverified)
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
— Marcel Proust(Attribution unverified)
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
— Marcel Proust(Attribution unverified)
As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral.
— Marcel Proust(Attribution unverified)
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
— Marcel Proust(Attribution unverified)
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
— Elbert Hubbard(Attribution unverified)
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-five now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
— Ellen DeGeneres(Attribution unverified)
I'm at an age where I think more about food than sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.
— Rodney Dangerfield(Attribution unverified)
I just finished my first book. Pretty soon, I'm gonna read another.
— Rodney Dangerfield(Attribution unverified)
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
— Rodney Dangerfield(Attribution unverified)
Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.
— Groucho Marx(Attribution unverified)
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
— George Burns(Attribution unverified)
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.
— Douglas Adams(Attribution unverified)
I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.
— Douglas Adams(Attribution unverified)
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
— Henny Youngman(Attribution unverified)
My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
— Henny Youngman(Attribution unverified)
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
— Woody Allen(Attribution unverified)