It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

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?

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Fun is good.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.