It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
Quotations
Happiness
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.
-William E. "Bill" Vaughan
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
