Quotes with sidewalk-happy

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  • Amy Tan People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Aldous Huxley Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Oscar Wilde Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Graham Greene Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Seneca Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Irving Layton Progress of a marriage: ''There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.''
    Irving Layton
    Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
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  • Samuel Johnson Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Billy Boyd Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • Ludwig van Beethoven Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    German composer (1770 - 1827)
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  • Fran Lebowitz Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Ann Landers Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • William Shakespeare Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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