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- Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions"
- Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez (1941 - )
- There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
- Edmund Wilson (1895 - 1972)
- There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937), The Last Asset, 1904
- Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
- Hobart Brown
- Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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