Josh Billings Quotes About Happiness
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When you do laugh, open your mouth wide enough for the noise to get out without squealing, throw your head back as though you were going to be shaved, hold on to your false hair with both hands and then laugh till your soul gets thoroughly rested.
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
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The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.
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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
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Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.
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Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.
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The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
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