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Happiness and Misery

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Commenttiny.ag/j7p2q06i · ★★☆☆ Fair (1186 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Francis Bacon, in Happiness and Misery

Commenttiny.ag/wjruna0x · ★★☆☆ Fair (394 ratings) · submitted 1997

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle, in Happiness and Misery

Commenttiny.ag/kiehwrll · ★★☆☆ Fair (673 ratings) · submitted 1997

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Aesop, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure

Commenttiny.ag/r8nedjty · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1998

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

Commenttiny.ag/yqwcpnfd · ★★☆☆ Fair (402 ratings) · submitted 1997

To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

Commenttiny.ag/zuqxlkhf · ★★☆☆ Fair (288 ratings) · submitted 1997

Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

Commenttiny.ag/jhu7bauz · ★★☆☆ Fair (959 ratings) · submitted 1999 by S. Gilmary Beagle

Misery is optional.

S. Gilmary Beagle, in Happiness and Misery

Commenttiny.ag/otklgivp · ★★☆☆ Fair (813 ratings) · submitted 1999

Living well is the best revenge.

George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, in Happiness and Misery

Commenttiny.ag/jcmdoh1n · ★★☆☆ Fair (296 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Anja Klein

Live each day as if it were the last day of your life, because so far, it is.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

Commenttiny.ag/acorhvan · ★★☆☆ Fair (281 ratings) · submitted 1997

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

Commenttiny.ag/yifsur6a · ★★☆☆ Fair (335 ratings) · submitted 1997

Here's to your love, health, and wealth -- and time to enjoy each.

Unknown, (Spanish proverb), in Happiness and Misery

Commenttiny.ag/f8mrmb30 · ★★☆☆ Fair (286 ratings) · submitted 1997

If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

Commenttiny.ag/lkbki8ft · ★★☆☆ Fair (305 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·

For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

Commenttiny.ag/sbgdcf8o · ★★☆☆ Fair (962 ratings) · submitted 1999

Everyone smiles in the same language.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

Commenttiny.ag/cxjvq280 · ★★☆☆ Fair (858 ratings) · submitted 1999

Even the the most tempting rose has thorns.

Tristan Eggener, in Happiness and Misery

Commenttiny.ag/myqpc8fj · ★★☆☆ Fair (897 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Mindy Romero

Don't do whatever you like -- like whatever you do.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Work and Recreation

Commenttiny.ag/mvs5tcpe · ★★☆☆ Fair (255 ratings) · submitted 1997

Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

Commenttiny.ag/u4yrbtrm · ★★☆☆ Fair (532 ratings) · submitted 1997

In life, we are all in the gutter. Some of us just tend to look up at the stars.

Oscar Wilde, in Happiness and Misery

Commenttiny.ag/h7togzxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (239 ratings) · submitted 1997

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.

Joe Walsh, in Happiness and Misery

Commenttiny.ag/k92gvbst · ★★☆☆ Fair (260 ratings) · submitted 1997

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

Voltaire, in Happiness and Misery

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