Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/mvs5tcpe · ★★☆☆ Fair (255 ratings) · submitted 1997
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
tiny.ag/z2rhcpai · ★★☆☆ Fair (312 ratings) · submitted 1997
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
tiny.ag/tnv5wb46 · ★★☆☆ Fair (855 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Paul Jones
Do not scorn the person who is perpetually happy. He does know something you don't.
tiny.ag/ozic8c3g · ★★☆☆ Fair (156 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is short. Live it up.
Nikita Khrushchev, (New York Times Magazine, August 3, 1958), in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death
tiny.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.
tiny.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.
tiny.ag/h7togzxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (239 ratings) · submitted 1997
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
tiny.ag/k6fomrdi · ★★☆☆ Fair (273 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Mark van Essen
So go for the jump, and chase all your dreams.
Mark van Essen, (from a lyric written for Bruce Springsteen), in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/mu8iz5pd · ★★☆☆ Fair (218 ratings) · submitted 1997
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
tiny.ag/edsop9bf · ★★☆☆ Fair (282 ratings) · submitted 1997
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
tiny.ag/ftbq0ees · ★★☆☆ Fair (412 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow.
tiny.ag/krxruwjx · ★★☆☆ Fair (1238 ratings) · submitted 1999
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator, in Happiness and Misery and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/jhbofhcv · ★★☆☆ Fair (424 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
tiny.ag/62i8fdwb · ★★☆☆ Fair (333 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.
tiny.ag/un7qhxcv · ★★☆☆ Fair (344 ratings) · submitted 1997
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
tiny.ag/sotcjfde · ★★☆☆ Fair (253 ratings) · submitted 1997
When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
tiny.ag/0xibm9hu · ★★☆☆ Fair (336 ratings) · submitted 1997
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
tiny.ag/c0gunnxj · ★★☆☆ Fair (456 ratings) · submitted 1997
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
George Bernard Shaw, in Happiness and Misery and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/fkz5efpm · ★★☆☆ Fair (167 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
tiny.ag/pw5jxnsv · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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