quotes about happiness and life

History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided. ~Konrad Adenauer


When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. ~Albert Einstein


Your life may be the only Bible some people read. ~Author Unknown


Only a few things are really important. ~Marie Dressler


One person, one vote.* (*May not apply in all states.) ~Author Unknown


What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables, 1822


Dreams are free, so free your dreams. ~Astrid Alauda


Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams. ~Douglas Jerrold


It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch. ~Chang Ch'ao


I was undoubtedly at the end of my strength. A flood of tears gushed from my eyes. I wouldn't have been able to tell the reason for these tears, which were not tears of distress, and which, to the contrary, gave me relief and relaxation.... It was for myself I was weeping, perhaps, for my presence in this garden, for this cursed love in which I felt that everything which then remained to me - every generous impulse, every lost desire, and every noble ambition was profaned by the impure breath of these kisses, of which I was ashamed and for which I was also thirsty. Well, no! Why should I lie to myself? Physical tears... tears of weakness, fatigue and fever, tears of enervation before sights too cruel for my debilitated senses, before odors too strong for my sense of smell, before the continual oscillation of my carnal desires from impotence to frenzy... the tears of a woman... tears for nothing at all! ~"The Garden," Chapter 6


Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. ~Author Unknown


If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. ~Hamilton Fish


There is only one trait which is irreparable in a statesman: honesty! Honesty is negative and sterile; it is ignorant of the correct evaluation of appetite and ambition - the only powers through which you can found anything durable. ~"The Mission," Chapter 3


It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. ~Mark Twain


Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny. ~Don Sutton


A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores. ~Klinger, "Bug-Out," original airdate 21 September 1976, written by Jim Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum, directed by Gene Reynolds


I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to hell? ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Homer Simpson


Carelessness doesn't bounce; it shatters. ~Hartman Jule


The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend. ~Cali Rae Turner


History is the story of events, with praise or blame. ~Cotton Mather