quotes on happiness

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. ~Charles Angoff



Forbidden things have a secret charm. ~Publius Cornelius Tacitus



Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. ~St. Jerome, Attack on Jovinian



Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb



The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Skipping turns your legs into built-in pogo sticks. ~Jessi Lane Adams



I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. ~James Thurber



We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ~Eric Hoffer



Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb



Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns. ~J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com



No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself. ~Rabbi Sofer



History is a novel for which the people is the author. ~Alfred de Vigny, Reflexions sur la Verite dans l'Art



What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. ~Saint Augustine



There are aphorisms that, like air planes, stay up only while they are in motion. ~Vladimir Nabokov



Skiing is the only sport where you spend an arm and a leg to break an arm and a leg. ~Author Unknown



Poker exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great. ~Walter Matthau



Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies." ~Author Unknown



The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash. ~Julie Furtado



The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. ~Don Marquis