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- Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- Alimony: the ransom the happy pay to the devil.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
- Sometimes in my dreams there are women...When such dreams happen, immediately I remember, 'I am a monk.'...It is very important to analyze 'What is the real benefit of sexual desire?' The appearance of a beautiful face or a beautiful body - as many scriptures describe - no matter how beautiful, they essentially decompose into a skeleton. When we penetrate to its human flesh and bones, there is no beauty, is there? A couple in a sexual experience is happy for that moment. Then very soon trouble begins.
- The Dalai Lama (1935 - )
- Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
- J. D. Salinger (1919 - )
- People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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