Famous Happy Quotes



When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus

We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we’re happy because we laugh.

William James

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

James Joyce

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Ludwig van Beethoven

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Thomas Jefferson

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

Oscar Wilde

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

Henry David Thoreau

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Kurt Cobain

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

Hesiod

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

John Stuart Mill

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Euripides

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

Mark Twain

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Ovid

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

Mark Twain

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

Albert Einstein

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Jean de La Fontaine

Let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.

Albert Einstein

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Jean de La Fontaine

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Omar Khayyam

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Albert Einstein

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.

Kurt Cobain

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Benjamin Franklin

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

Oscar Wilde

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

Oscar Wilde

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Immanuel Kant

Cheers to what was, to what is, and to what will be. Happy New Year!

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

David Hume

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Jane Austen

You make love look effortless and kindness feel easy – happy Mother’s Day!

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