I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.
Larry David

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

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
Benjamin Disraeli

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
John Ruskin

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
John Ruskin

I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
Drew Barrymore

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Bertrand Russell

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
Bertrand Russell

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
William James

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
William James

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

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

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
Virgil

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.
Virgil

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
Ludwig van Beethoven

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven