“6265.
Happy’s the wooing,
That’s not long a doing.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1734).
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734Related quotes
“As long as the women I’m romancing are happy with me doing it then I’ll carry on.”
From interview with David Light
“So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 297.
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Loving
“Happiness is the longing for repetition.”
as quoted by de:Wolf-Dieter Dube, in Expressionism, de:Wolf-Dieter Dube; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 89
Source: The Autobiography of My Mother
“Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.”
Seulement, il faut du temps pour être heureux. Beaucoup de temps. Le bonheur lui aussi est une longue patience.
A Happy Death (1971)