The pledge of happier times. [ Motto ]
The happier the moments the shorter. [ Pliny ]
Could I love less, I should be happier now. [ Bailey ]
The happier the time, the quicker it passes. [ Pliny the Younger ]
The long days are no happier than the short ones. [ Bailey ]
They may rail at this life - from the hour I began it,
I've found it a life full of kindness and bliss;
And until they can show me some happier planet.
More social and bright, I'll content me with this. [ Moore ]
He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men. [ W. R. Alger ]
We are no longer happy, so soon as we wish to be happier. [ Walter Savage Landor ]
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Happier are the hands compassed with iron than a heart with thoughts. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge. [ William Shakespeare ]
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands. [ Dryden ]
A fool is happier in thinking well of himself, than a wise man in others thinking well of him. [ Proverb ]
I have made it a rule never to be with a person ten minutes without trying to make him happier. [ Dr. Raffler ]
The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. [ Johnson ]
Women are happier in the love they inspire than in that which they feel: men are just the contrary. [ Beauchene ]
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. [ Pythagoras ]
What we have pleases us if we do not compare it with what others have; he never will be happy to whom a happier is a torture. [ Seneca ]
A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors. [ Ouida ]
The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth, - truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier. [ Horace Greeley ]
That state of life is alone suitable to a man in which and for which he was born, and he who is not led abroad by great objects is far happier at home. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
When we plant a tree, we are doing what we can to make our planet a more wholesome and happier dwelling-place for those who come after us if not for ourselves. [ Holmes ]
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it. [ Pliny ]
Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe. to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals. [ Goldsmith ]
To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all, on the same condition, to keep friends with himself: here is a task for all a man has of fortitude and delicacy. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]