Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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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/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/sbgdcf8o · ★★☆☆ Fair (962 ratings) · submitted 1999
Everyone smiles in the same language.
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/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/mvs5tcpe · ★★☆☆ Fair (255 ratings) · submitted 1997
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
tiny.ag/edsop9bf · ★★☆☆ Fair (282 ratings) · submitted 1997
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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/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/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/sjrepy9y · ★★☆☆ Fair (254 ratings) · submitted 1997
Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
tiny.ag/un7qhxcv · ★★☆☆ Fair (344 ratings) · submitted 1997
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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/u9pdixbi · ★★☆☆ Fair (249 ratings) · submitted 1997
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Stanley, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure
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