Quotes of Happily - somelinesforyou

“ A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ If you want to die happily, learn to live; if you would live happily, learn to die. ”

- Celio Calcagnini

“ No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general. ”

- Novalis

“ The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. ”

- Plato

“ We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ I could never live happily in Africa — or anywhere else — until I could live freely in Mississippi. ”

- Alice Walker

“ The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island. ”

- Malcolm Muggeridge

“ I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. ”

- George Jean Nathan

“ It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily. ”

- Arnold Palmer

“ It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank. ”

- Simon Travaglia

“ The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily. ”

- Lydia M. Child

“ To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give. ”

- Tristan Bernard

“ We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Happily ever after doesn't come free, but I'd give anything to have it. ”

- Kelly Clarkson

“ We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. ”

- Nick Faldo

“ While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned. ”

- Seneca

“ He who would travel happily must travel light. ”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“ In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. ”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

“ Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not. ”

- Jerry Gellis

“ I don't sleep with happily married men. ”

- Britt Ekland

“ Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. ”

- Epicurus

“ And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after. ”

- Roald Dahl

“ To live happily is an inward power of the soul. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. ”

- Margaret Bonnano

“ No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not. ”

- H.L. Mencken

“ The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness. ”

- Horace
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