Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/r8nedjty · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1998
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
tiny.ag/yqwcpnfd · ★★☆☆ Fair (402 ratings) · submitted 1997
To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.
tiny.ag/zuqxlkhf · ★★☆☆ Fair (288 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time.
tiny.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.
tiny.ag/sbgdcf8o · ★★☆☆ Fair (962 ratings) · submitted 1999
Everyone smiles in the same language.
tiny.ag/jhu7bauz · ★★☆☆ Fair (959 ratings) · submitted 1999 by S. Gilmary Beagle
Misery is optional.
tiny.ag/otklgivp · ★★☆☆ Fair (813 ratings) · submitted 1999
Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/acorhvan · ★★☆☆ Fair (281 ratings) · submitted 1997
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
tiny.ag/f8mrmb30 · ★★☆☆ Fair (286 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are.
tiny.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
tiny.ag/lkbki8ft · ★★☆☆ Fair (305 ratings) · submitted 1997
For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
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/myqpc8fj · ★★☆☆ Fair (897 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Mindy Romero
Don't do whatever you like -- like whatever you do.
tiny.ag/cxjvq280 · ★★☆☆ Fair (858 ratings) · submitted 1999
Even the the most tempting rose has thorns.
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/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/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.
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