quotes and sayings about love and happiness

Law never made men a whit more just. ~Henry David Thoreau



As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death. ~Leonardo da Vinci



Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. ~John Brown



The stars are the street lights of eternity. ~Author Unknown



A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. ~Sydney Smith



Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. ~Marya Mannes



If the author had said "Let us put on appropriate galoshes," there could, of course, have been no poem. ~Author Unknown



Americans are broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there is something wrong with him. ~Art Buchwald, "How Un-American Can You Get?," Have I Ever Lied to You?, 1966



Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. ~Jean de Boufflers



Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one? ~George Bernard Shaw



The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~Bishop Mandell Creighton



Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. ~Joseph Wood Krutch



Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ~Billy Wilder



I never liked riding in helicopters because there's a fair probability that the bottom part will get going around as fast as the top part. ~John Wittenborn



Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure. ~Thomas Szasz



When I learned to sew, I forgot how to cook. ~Author Unknown



Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work. ~Llewelyn Powys



In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. ~Toni Morrison



The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ~Mencius