It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Thomas Carlyle

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
W. H. Auden

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Michel de Montaigne

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.
James Buchanan

I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.
Shia LaBeouf

I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.
Nancy Reagan

Call no man happy till he is dead.
Aeschylus

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
Aeschylus

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
James Joyce

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis Stevenson

To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Robert Louis Stevenson

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Robert Anthony

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
Roald Dahl