Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 180.
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George Bernard Shaw 413
Irish playwright 1856–1950Related quotes
“Habit is Heaven's own redress:
it takes the place of happiness.”
Source: Eugene Onegin (1823), Ch. 2, st. 31.
“A happy soul, that all the way
To heaven hath a summer’s day.”
In Praise of Lessius’s Rule of Health, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Wilderness", p. 199.
Original: Le donne sono stelle, un dono del cielo. E, quando sono felici, brillano di una luce propria, intensa e vitale.
Source: prevale.net
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (2005), p. 25.