quotes about being happy again

The list of Irish saints is past counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick - who was an Irishman only by adoption. ~Stephen Gwynn



A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. ~John Tudor



Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. ~Horace



Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



You can't have everything... where would you put it? ~Steven Wright



To a man with an empty stomach food is God. ~Gandhi



There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. ~Seneca



The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw



It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology. ~Leopold von Ranke, History of the Popes



Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform. ~Edward Young



O, she is the antidote to desire. ~William Congreve, Love for Love, 1695



Who lies for you will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb



What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. ~George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860



Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. ~Eric Hoffer



Righteousness is easy in retrospect. ~Arthur Schlesinger Jr.



Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. ~Beverly Jones



A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist. If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it's taken personally. Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power. His fairness. His very existence. But if a world mother doesn't reply, Her excuse is simple. She never claimed conceited omnipotence. She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves. To Her elder offspring She says - go raid the fridge. Go play outside. Go get a job. Or, better yet, lend me a hand. I have no time for idle whining. ~David Brin



Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent. ~Justinian I, Law Code, A.D. 535



When we look up, it widens our horizons. We see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race. ~Julia Gregson



He stands out among the beacon lights of history as a man of vision dominated by a definite purpose. ~John George Jones