“The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.”

“During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.”

“Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.”

“You are a lucky lady to be marrying a man who can fix things. Most husbands just break things.”

“The joy of life is living it, or so it seems to me;
In finding shackles on your wrists, then struggling till you're free;
In seeing wrongs and righting them, in dreaming splendid dreams,
Then toiling till the vision is as real as moving streams.
The happiest mortal on the earth is he who ends his day
By leaving better than he found to bloom along the way.”

“I'm crazy enough to believe that the happiest man on earth is the man with the fewest needs.”

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”

“Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.”

“like the fox
I run with the hunted
and if I’m not
the happiest man
on earth
I’m surely the
luckiest man
alive.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God's earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself.”