“Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.”
Source: George Meredith
Happiness Quotes
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“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past
“It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.”
Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth
“We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.”
“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”
“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.”
“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.”
“Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.”
“Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.”
Source: Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse
“Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.”
Source: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories
“Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.”
“He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.”
“No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.”
“Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.”
“To describe happiness is to diminish it.”
Source: The private diaries of Stendhal [pseud.]
Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)
Source: The Selected Poems of William Blake
Source: The Portable William Blake
“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”
Source: Poems
“Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?”
Source: Collected Poems
“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
Source: My Life for the Poor
Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
Source: The Hobbit