“The demography of happiness, in this study the government found out that young people are happier than old people, and they found out that people that earn more are happier than people that earn less, and they found out that well people are happier than sick people… It took $249,000 to find out that it’s better to be rich, young and healthy than old, poor and sick.”
On US government spending. Interview on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson on 01/03/1975 as shown on YouTube The Tonight Show video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNmnmdtcdcg <br class="br">1970s
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Montesquieu (1689–1755) French social commentator and political thinker
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards.
“One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.”
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) American writer
Source: In the Mecca
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Dialogue between Russell and his daughter Katharine, as quoted in My Father – Bertrand Russell (1975)
Attributed from posthumous publications
“I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
As quoted in Rolling Stone (1993-01-27).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
“Young people suffer less from their faults than from the prudence of the old.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 174.
“People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t”
Stephen Fry book Moab Is My Washpot
Source: Moab Is My Washpot
