
“If thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 85
Book XIII, Ch. 2
The History of Tom Jones (1749)
“If thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 85
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
As quoted in An Enemy Called Average (1990) by John L. Mason, p. 55.
Date unknown
“There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.”
Iphigenia in Tauris (c. 412 BC) l. 721
“Do I look like a happy-ending to you?”
From Her Tours and CDs, Beautiful Tour
“We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.”
“The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.”
Le bonheur et le malheur des hommes ne dépend pas moins de leur humeur que de la fortune.
Maxim 61.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)