Jeremy Corbyn (1949) British Labour Party politician
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1985/jan/30/pensioners-right-to-fuel-and in the House of Commons (30 January 1985). <br class="br">1980s
Jeremy Corbyn (1949) British Labour Party politician
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1985/jan/30/pensioners-right-to-fuel-and in the House of Commons (30 January 1985). <br class="br">1980s
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
Alexander Ovechkin (1985) Russian ice hockey player
Canadian Press (October 27, 2006) "More than just the next superstar - Ovechkin's zest for life contagious with Capitals", The Record (Kitchner, Ontario, Canada), p. D2.
Joseph Alleine (1634–1668) Pastor, author
Romans 10:1
An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners: A Serious Treatise, Joseph Alleine, Kindle location 140.
An Alarm to the Unconverted aka A Sure Guide to Heaven (first published 1671)
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Divan 1740:1-3, as translated by Fatemeh Keshavarz in Reading Mystical Lyric : The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1998)
Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland (1982) Swedish princess
royalcorrespondent.com interview http://royalcorrespondent.com/2013/07/15/we-really-are-a-team-says-princess-madeleine-in-a-new-interview/
“Happiness! pleasure I should rather say,
Happiness never made on earth a stay”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(5th June 1825) Portraits II
The London Literary Gazette, 1825
David Attenborough (1926) British broadcaster and naturalist
Closing lines, quoting from The Malay Archipelago (1869) by Alfred Russel Wallace.
Attenborough in Paradise (1996)
David Seth Doggett (1810–1880) American bishop
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 211.
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.”
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics (1785)
Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908) Journalist, children's writer
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings (1895), Preface.
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
Gautama Buddha in Digha Nikaya as quoted in Avatars down the ages by Felicity Elliot http://www.shareintl.org/archives/AgelessWisdom/aw_fe-Avatars.htm <br class="br">Source: Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Digha Nikaya (Long Discourses)
Tibor R. Machan (1939–2016) Hungarian-American philosopher
“Collectivist Thinking Is Rife in the USA”, Strike The Root, March 1, 2004 http://www.strike-the-root.com/content/collectivist-thinking-rife-usa
Giovanni della Casa (1503–1556) Roman Catholic archbishop
Source: Galateo: Or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners, p. 3
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
And I want to say tonight, I want to say that I am happy that I didn't sneeze.
1960s, I've Been to the Mountaintop (1968)
Alfred George Gardiner (1865–1946) British journalist and writer
On being told in 1915 that W. G. Grace had died. From Pebbles on the Shore (1916)
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862–1947) American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
Scholarship and service : the policies of a national university in a modern democracy https://archive.org/details/scholarshipservi00butluoft (1921)
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Section 4 : Moral Ideals
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
“Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.”
Raymond Loewy (1893–1986) industrial designer
Raymond Loewy (ca. 1949); Cited in: Paul Greenhalgh (1993) Quotations and Sources on Design and the Decorative Arts. p. 117
“There will be real happiness, peace of mind and balance, when living by heart and right-mindedly.”
Stephen R. Covey book First Things First
First Things First (1994), Disputed
Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin
Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Ch. 22 "The Grass Withereth — the Flower Fadeth".
Johan Cruyff (1947–2016) Dutch association football player
reported in David Winner (2012). Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football.
“In your eyes I saw my destiny today is like I wanted you made me love, taught me to be happy.”
MC Daleste (1992–2013) Brazilian funk and rap musician
In the song Em Teu Olhar http://www.vagalume.com.br/mc-daleste/em-teu-olhar.html
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 1
“God made beer because he loves us and wants us to be happy.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
The quote, and its many variants, has been widely attributed to Franklin; however, there has never been an authoritative source for the quote, and research http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:4EV3RmSwk04J:listserv.dom.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe%3FA2%3Dind0507%26L%3Dstumpers-l%26O%3DD%26P%3D31953+abbe+morellet+franklin+wine&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3 indicates that it is very likely a misquotation of Franklin's words regarding wine: "Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy." (see sourced section above for a more extensive quotation of this passage from a letter to André Morellet), written in 1779. <br class="br">Misattributed
Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–1880) American priest
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 323.
“I'm happy and I have a great life.”
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
Gayle King XM satellite radio program (October 23, 2006)
2007, 2008
Benjamín Netanyahu (1949) Israeli prime minister
2010s, 2015, Address to the United States Congress (March 2015)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, (1963)
Hugh Kingsmill (1889–1949) British writer and journalist
"Two Poems, After A. E. Housman", no. 2, line 1
“It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.”
Thomas Moore book Lalla Rookh
Part VI http://books.google.com/books?id=HtQMAAAAYAAJ&q=%22it+is+only+to+the+happy+that+tears+are+a+luxury%22&pg=PA124#v=onepage. <br class="br"> Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part V-VIII: The Fire-Worshippers
Radhanath Swami (1950) Gaudiya Vaishnava guru
?
The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami (Tulsi Books, 2010)
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Letter to his family (18 October 1918); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker. It was also published in The Oak Parker (Oak Park, IL) on 16 November 1918. Only 19 years old at the time, Hemingway was recovering from wounds suffered at the front line while serving as a Red Cross volunteer.
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) British writer
The Uncertain Midnight (1958)
David Dixon Porter (1813–1891) United States Navy admiral
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 320
Beverly Sills (1929–2007) opera soprano
As quoted in The Quotable Woman (1978) by Elaine Partnow, p. 399
James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)
Federalist No. 14 (30 November 1787) Full text at Wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers/No._14. This quotation was used on the official invitations to the 1985 presidential inaugural of President Ronald Reagan. <br class="br">1780s, Federalist Papers (1787–1788)
William Cobbett (1763–1835) English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist
Source: Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine (1796), P. 22.
Victoria of the United Kingdom (1819–1901) British monarch who reigned 1837–1901
Source: Letter (16 May 1860), published in Dearest Child: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal Previously Unpublished edited by Roger Fulfold (1964), p. 254. Also quoted in the article "Queen Victoria's Not So Victorian Writings" http://www.victoriana.com/doors/queenvictoria.htm by Heather Palmer (1997).
“The happiness of the ignorant is but an animal’s paradise.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 199
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) German mathematician and physical scientist
As quoted in Kneller, Karl Alois, Kettle, Thomas Michael, 1911. "Christianity and the leaders of modern science; a contribution to the history of culture in the nineteenth century" https://archive.org/stream/christianitylead00kneluoft#page/46/mode/2up, Freiburg im Breisgau, p. 46
“Happiness, like water, is always available, but so often it seems we’d prefer a different drink.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
Aphorism #2
Interglacial (2004)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker
from Kirchner's Diary, 1923; as quoted in Expressionism, a German intuition, 1905-1920, Neugroschel, Joachim; Vogt, Paul; Keller, Horst; Urban, Martin; Dube, Wolf Dieter; (transl. Joachim Neugroschel); publisher: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1980, p. 93
1920's
Og Mandino book The Greatest Salesman in the World
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 16 : The Scroll Marked IX, p. 95.
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 6, Perturbations of the mind rectified. From himself, by resisting to the utmost, confessing his grief to a friend, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
William Feather (1889–1981) Publisher, Author
This has been attributed to Feather in some 21st century publications, but the earliest source yet located is as an anonymous proverb posted in The Poultry Item, Vol. 28 (1925) http://books.google.com/books?id=g71JAAAAYAAJ&q=%22+happiness+and+intelligence+are+so+rarely+found+in+the+same+person%22&dq=%22+happiness+and+intelligence+are+so+rarely+found+in+the+same+person%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gYhOU4f6FOW_0AHNpIHQCA&ved=0CFkQ6AEwCA <br class="br">Disputed
Walter Murch (1943) American film editor and sound designer
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film, Michael Ondaatje, 2002, ISBN 0-375-41386-3.
“And there is ev'n a happiness
That makes the heart afraid!”
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) British writer
Ode to Melancholy http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_2.htm#057, st. 6 (1827). <br class="br">1820s
Richard Stallman (1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
As quoted in Free as in Freedom : Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch08.html (2002) by Sam Williams; Ch. 8 : St. Ignucius <br class="br">2000s
Titus Salt (1803–1876) English industrialist and philanthropist
The speech he made to the 3,500 guests (including his workers) at the banquet on 1853-09-20, which he held to celebrate both his fiftieth birthday and the opening of his new factory at Saltaire. [Inauguration of the works at Saltaire, The Bradford Observer, 1853-09-22, 8, http://find.galegroup.com/bncn/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&orientation=&scale=0.33&sort=DateAscend&docLevel=FASCIMILE&prodId=BNCN&tabID=T012&subjectParam=Locale%2528en%252C%252C%2529%253ALQE%253D%2528jn%252CNone%252C17%2529Bradford%2BObserver%253AAnd%253ALQE%253D%2528da%252CNone%252C10%252909%252F22%252F1853%2524&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchId=R2&searchType=BasicSearchForm¤tPosition=11&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3ALQE%3D%28jn%2CNone%2C17%29Bradford+Observer%3AAnd%3ALQE%3D%28da%2CNone%2C10%2909%2F22%2F1853%24&subjectAction=DISPLAY_SUBJECTS&retrieveFormat=MULTIPAGE_DOCUMENT&enlarge=&bucketSubId=&inPS=true&userGroupName=brad&hilite=y&docPage=article&nav=prev&sgCurrentPosition=0&docId=R3207957429, 2012-06-07 (subscription site)]
A slightly edited version (in the third person) appears in [Holroyd, Abraham, 1873, 2000, Saltaire and its Founder, Piroisms Press, ISBN 0-9538601-0-8, 14-15]
“I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me;
If my bark sinks, 't is to another sea.”
William Ellery Channing (poet) (1818–1901) American writer
A Poet's Hope, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Ah, take one consideration with another
A policeman's lot is not a happy one!”
W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo
The Policeman's Lot (from The Pirates of Penzance).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
McKenna interview (1992)
Kate Winslet (1975) English actress and singer
Isn’t She Deneuvely?: Vanity Fair, Dec 2008 http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/12/winslet200812
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
"Address at the University of Wyoming (381)" (25 September 1963) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx <br class="br">1963
Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist
Pieces of Eight (1982)
Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) American Supreme Court Justice
Albert Einstein, letter to Justice Brandeis on 1936-11-10, ibid.
Dukas and Hoffman comment: "the handwritten original is among the Brandeis papers at the Law School of the University of Louisville."
Haidakhan Babaji teacher in northern India
Karma yoga
Source: The Teachings of Babaji, 23 September 1983.
“Happy is that City that hath a wise man to govern it.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
George William Curtis (1824–1892) American writer
1850s, The Present Aspect of the Slavery Question (1859)
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) German social scientist, author, political theorist, and philosopher
Source: The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1845), p. 27
“We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.”
Inde fit ut raro, qui se vixisse beatum
dicat et exacto contentus tempore vita
cedat uti conviva satur, reperire queamus.
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
Robert Lynn Asprin (1946–2008) American science fiction and fantasy author
Source: Wagers of Sin (1996), Chapter 21 (p. 430)
Lana Del Rey (1985) American singer-songwriter
Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2091372/Lana-Del-Rey-interview-Singer-opens-love-poses-sheer-trenchcoat.html (25 January 2012)
Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) French painter and sculptor
Quote in Duchamp's letter to Walter Pach, Paris 27 April 1915; as quoted in The Duchamp Book, ed. Gavin Parkinson, Tate Publishing, London 2008 p. 157
1915 - 1925
“I wasn't happy when we found out there wasn't weapons [of mass destruction in Iraq]</s”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2nd Presidential Debate, October 8, 2004
2000s, 2004
Laura Riding Jackson (1901–1991) poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
"Daisy and Venison" from Progress of Stories (Deya, Majorca: Seizin Press; London, Constable, 1935)
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
How To Reform Mankind (1896). http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/how_to_reform_mankind.html Republished by Kessinger Publishing, Llc, 2005. http://books.google.de/books/about/How_to_Reform_Mankind.html?id=u-IpAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
Edwin Abbott Abbott book Flatland
Source: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), PART II: OTHER WORLDS, Chapter 20. How the Sphere Encouraged Me in a Vision
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Quote in his letter to brother Theo from Auvers, July 1890; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 648), p. 26 <br class="br">1890s
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
As quoted in "Bob Says 'They Try': Feeble Pitching Takes Joy From Clemente's Night" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hBFOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=h_0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5612%2C2872741 by Charley Feeney, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Wednesday, May 17, 1967), p. 26 <br class="br">Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1967</big>
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
Speech http://www.bartleby.com/349/authors/133.html to the electors at Edinburgh (May 1839)
“Happiness has to exist in the mind before it can exist in life.”
Lorin Morgan-Richards (1975) American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer
Speaking at the Los Angeles St. David's Day Festival (1 March 2014).
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 103
Tom Robbins (1932) American writer
"The Green Man : Tom Robbins" interviewed by Gregory Daurer, in High Times (12 June 2002).
High Times interview (2002)
George Santayana book Scepticism and Animal Faith
The Works of George Santayana p. 65
Scepticism and Animal Faith (1923)
Alan Ryan (1940) British philosopher
On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present (2012), Ch. 5 : Augustine’s Two Cities
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 3, hadith number 466
Sunni Hadith
Albrecht Thaer (1752–1828) German agronomist and an avid supporter of the humus theory for plant nutrition
My Life and Confessions, for Philippine, 1786
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The John Clifford Lecture at Coventry (14 July 1930), published in This Torch of Freedom (1935), p. 48.
1930
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 48.
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
Mary Wollstonecraft book A Vindication of the Rights of Men
A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)