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Happiness

 All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. 
Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
 Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. 
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
 Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. 
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
 Everything in moderation, including moderation. 
Petronius (27-66)
 Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. 
Anonymous
 God is dead, Marx is dead, and I don't feel so well myself. 
Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994)
 Happiness can't buy you money. 
Anonymous
 Happiness is no laughing matter. 
Richard Whately (1787-1863)
 Happiness isn't something you experience. It's something you remember. 
Oscar Levant (1906-1972)
 Happiness was Lubbock, Texas, in my rearview mirror. 
Mac Davis (1942- )
 Having fun is a dismal business after you pass fifty. 
E.W. Howe (1853-1937)
 I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. 
P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)
 I love my women and sometimes they love me. 
Lyle Lovett (1957- )
 If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. 
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
 If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. 
Orson Welles (1915-1985)
 It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. 
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
 Money doesn't buy happiness; it rents it. 
Anonymous
 No one knows what true happiness is until they get married but by then, of course, it's too late. 
Anonymous
 Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy. 
Oh le bon temps où étions si malheureux.
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
 People wait all week for Friday, all year for summer, and all their life for happiness. 
Anonymous
 She was so glad to see me go that I have almost a mind to come again, that she may again have the same pleasure. 
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
 Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. 
Anonymous
 Some mornings, it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. 
Emo Philips (1956- )
 The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy. 
Die Welt des Glücklichen ist eine andere als die des Unglücklichen.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
 There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. 
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
 You've made a happy man very old. 
Billy Connolly (1942- )
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