Men want to make women happy.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

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.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

I love women with attitude.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

Like associates with like.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Love is trembling happiness.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

He who hath many friends hath none.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.