Men want to make women happy.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

He who is contented is rich.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

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

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.