Long, Happy Marriage

Happiness was born a twin. - Lord Byron

No one is happy all his life long. - Euripides

Happiness is only real when shared. - Jon Krakauer

A policeman's lot is not a happy one. - W S Gilbert

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

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. - Lady Marguerite Blessington

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

Have great, secret, big, fat hopes for yourself. - Gloria Vanderbilt

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

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

A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age. - Voltaire

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

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

There is no perfect marriage, for there are no perfect men. - French Proverb

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

Before anything else, getting ready is the secret of success. - Henry Ford

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

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage." - Herbert Spencer

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin. - Barbara Kingsolver

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. - Martin Buber

I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows. - Robert Frost

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet. - James Oppenheim

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure. - Francoise de Motteville

Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - Dalai Lama

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. - Erma Bombeck

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. - Bertrand Russell

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - Marcel Proust

Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force. - Ogden Nash

Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere. - Colin Baker

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. - Leonardo da Vinci

Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool. - John M. Good

If you get up in the morning and you say, 'I got to go to work. How can I get out of this?' you're not happy. - Red Auerbach

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? - Princess Diana

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,
And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. - Ogden Nash

The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. - Leo Rosten