Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
George Burns

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
James Madison

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
James Madison

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
Oswald Chambers

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George Orwell

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Frederick Douglass

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton

When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas Merton

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Plutarch

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise Pascal

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Blaise Pascal

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Lord Byron

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord Byron

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard