Classic English quotes about happiness

A contented mind is the test blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

joseph addison. american writer

Contentment is the greatest blessing in life.

American writer Addison.j.

A lifetime of happiness! no man alive could bear it; it would be hell on erath.

g.bernard shaw.british dramatist

Happiness for life! This is unbearable for any living person, it would be hell on earth.

British playwright Bernard Shaw.g.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Thomas Carlyle, british historian and essayist

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-lived life.

　William Cowper, british poet

Idleness is not rest, and a very empty soul is a painful soul.

Englishman Cowper.w.

all the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, and self-denial, and study.

willian graham sumner, american sociologist

Every happiness we have is the result of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

American sociologist Sumner.w.g.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall not be disap-pointed.

alexander pope. british poet

A person who wants nothing is happy because he will never be disappointed.

Englishman Pope.a.

call no man happy till he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

solon, ancient athenian statesman

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No one can be called happy unless he enters the coffin, but at most he is just lucky.

Ancient Athenian statesman Solon

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

a.m s. boethius, ancient roman statesman

Of all misfortunes, the most unfortunate thing is to have been happy.

Ancient Roman statesman Perseus.a.m.s.

happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' garden.

d.w.jerrold , british dramatist

Happiness grows by our own fireside and cannot be gathered from other people's gardens.

British playwright Gerald D.W.

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

n. hawthorn, american writer

Happiness is a butterfly. When you chase it, you can never catch it; but if you sit quietly Come down and it might fall on you.

American writer Hawthorne.n.

Happiness is a form of courage.

h.jackson, british writer

Happiness is a form of courage.

A form of courage.

British writer Jackson.h.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by childuren to adults.

szasz thomas, american psychiatrist

Happiness is a figment of the imagination. In the past, the living thought the dead were happy, and children thought adults were happy.

American psychiatrist Thomas S.

Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.

c.pollock, british jutist

Happiness is a stop between too much and too little.

British jurist Pollock.c.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by--product.

Mrs. eleanor roosevelt, american president's wife

Happiness is not a goal, but a by-product.

Eleanor, wife of US President Roosevelt

Happiness is not something you experience; it's something you re-member.

o.levant, ameican pianist < /p>

Happiness is not what you experience, but what you remember.

American pianist Levante.

happy is the man who is living by his hobby.

g.bernard. shaw, british dramatist

People who are addicted to a certain hobby are happy.

British playwright Bernard Shaw.g.

happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

george sand, french woman writer

Happiness lies in knowing that you have happiness.

French female writer George Sand

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

< p> Frandlin Roosevelt, American President.

Happiness does not lie in having money, but in the joy of achievement and the passion for creativity.

U.S. President Roosevelt. f.

Hope is itself a species of happiness which this world affords.

Samuel johnson. british writer.

< p> Hope itself is a kind of happiness, perhaps the main happiness this world can provide.

British writer Johnson.s.

Human felicity is produced not so much by at pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.

Benjamin franklin, american president

Human happiness comes not so much from the occasional good fortune, but rather from the small benefits that occur every day.

U.S. President Franklin.b.

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.

john ray, averican naturalist

Diligence is the right hand of wealth, and frugality is her left hand.

American naturalist Rey.j

it is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

a . repplier, american fimale essayist

It is not easy to find happiness in oneself, but it is impossible to find happiness elsewhere.

American Girl Reaplieu.a.

jobs and work do much more than most of us realize to provide happi-ness and contentment.

leonard r. sayles, american writer

Careers and jobs play a much greater role in making people happy and satisfied than most of us realize.

American writer Sayles.l.r.

man is the artificer of his own happiness.

henry david thoreau, american writer

People are the designers of their own happiness.

American writer limcoln.h.d.

most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

abraham limcoln . american ruesident

For most people, they are as happy as they believe they are.

President Lincoln.a.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far ater part of the members are poor and miserable.

adam smith, british economist

If most members of a society are poor and miserable, the society cannot be prosperous and happy.

British economist Adam Smith

nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

gide andre, french writer

There is nothing more painful than remembering happiness.

French writer André.g.

One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.

francois la rochefoucauld, frcnch writer

A man is never as unhappy as he imagines, nor as happy as he hopes.

French writer La Rochefoucauld.f.

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pro-nounce him happy.

aeschylus.ancient ek dramatist

Only when a person's life ends in glory, can we dare to say that he is happy.

Ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus

There ae two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it, only the wisest of mankind achieve the sceond.

p. smith logan, american writer

There are two major goals in human life: first, to get what you want; second, Enjoy what you get. Only the smartest people can achieve the second goal.

American writer Logan.p.s.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

gerge bernard shaw. british dramatist

The secret of suffering is spending your free time worrying about your happiness.

British playwright Bernard Shaw.g.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

vitor hugo, french novelist

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The secret of suffering is spending your free time worrying about your happiness.

British playwright Bernard Shaw.g.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

vitor hugo, french novelist

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The greatest happiness in life is the belief that someone loves us.

French novelist Hugo.v.

There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love and innocence.

jean jecques rousseau.french thinker

The greatest happiness in the world is to have both love and innocence.

French thinker Rousseau.j.j

there is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

george sand. french woman writer

The only happiness in life is: loving and being loved.

French female writer George Sand

The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.

paul herman scherer,swiss physicist

The only way to multiply happiness in the world is to spread it out.

Swiss physicist Schiller.p.h.

to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

b. russell, british philosopher

Not getting something you desire is an essential part of happiness.

British philosopher Russell.b.

To fill the hour --- that is happiness.

ralph woldo emerson, american thinker

< p> Let time live more fully, that is happiness.

American thinker Emerson, r.w.

To really understand a man we must judge him in misforrune.

bonapart napoleon, french emperor

< p>To truly understand a person, you need to observe him when he is unhappy.

French Emperor Napoleon, b.

true happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise.

joseph addison, british writer

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True happiness does not show dew, it abandons glitz and noise.

British writer Addison.j.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents the difference between our talents and our expectations.

edward de bono .british physician

The best explanation for misfortune is the difference between people's talents and expectations.

　British Darbono.e.

　we have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

george bernard shaw , brittish dramatist

Just as we have no right to only enjoy wealth without creating wealth, we also have no right to only enjoy happiness without creating happiness.

British playwright Bernard Shaw.g.

When pleasure is the business of life, it ceases to be pleasure.

thomas chandler haliburton, canadian english expert

When enjoyment becomes the main thing in life, it ceases to be an enjoyment.

Canadian English expert Halliburton.t.g. ;