Long, Happy Marriage

Only dumb people are happy. - Courtney Love

Happy Hauntings; and, pleasant dreams! - Peter James

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. - Antonio Porchia

Who the hell wants to be happy all the time? - Christopher Plummer

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. - Pearl S. Buck

Love - a temporary insanity curable by marriage. - Ambrose Bierce

Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. - Voltaire

The happy people are those who are producing something. - William Ralph Inge

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory. - Jesse Ventura

Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way. - H.P. Lovecraft

It is a secret worth knowing, that lawyers rarely go to law. - Moses Crowell

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. - Doug Larson

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. - G K Chesterton

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind. - Alice Meynell

Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else. - Idel Dreimer

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings and lawyers. - Richard Pryor

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. - Albert Einstein

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success. - Anna Pavlova

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. - Benjamin Disraeli

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. - Dalai Lama

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention. - Sharon Salzberg

I believe in tying the marriage knot, as long as it's around the woman's neck. - WC Fields

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. - Benjamin Franklin

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. - William Saroyan

Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself in your way of thinking. - Marcus Aurelius

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. - Groucho Marx

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. - Ogden Nash

I have an abundance mentality. When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger. - Stephen Covey

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin

Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable. - Ezra T Benson

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. - Joseph Addison

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it. - Robert Brault

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. - Cyril Connolly

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you’re going to be lazy. - Shirley Conran