There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
Quotations
Happiness
Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise.
-Debra Anastasia
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
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
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.
-Leslie Vernick
"Lord, I Just Want to Be Happy"
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
