quotes on happiness and love

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. ~Howard Scott


Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome. ~James Bethea


Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern


On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ~Elizabeth Bowen


Christianity is not being destroyed by the confusions and concussions of the time; it is being discovered. ~Hugh E. Brown


One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. ~Oscar Wilde


Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Ts'ai Ken T'an


Pun: the humorous use of words, playing on similarities in sound or differences in meaning. Example: "Beginning gardeners work by trowel and error."


Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. ~Jean Paul Richter


The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours. ~John Milton


If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties. ~Henry Ward Beecher


He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds. ~Henry Ward Beecher


Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. ~Mahatma Gandhi


The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. ~Charles Evans Hughes


We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups. ~Margaret Atwood


A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. ~Robert Benchley


I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men. ~Diamanda Galas


The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it. ~Roger Bannister


Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ~Brendan Gill