quotes on happiness and laughter

Be always sure you're right, then go ahead. ~Davy Crockett



Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ~Ramona C. Carroll



In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. ~Nikita Ivanovich Panin



My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied. ~Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band



Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy. ~Estelle R. Ramey



I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit. ~Mae West



This is California. Blondes are like the state flower or something. ~From the television show Beverly Hills 90210, spoken by the character Steve Sanders



Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it. ~Paul Vixie



Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's Field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light. ~Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider



Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. ~Voltaire



Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. ~Benjamin Franklin



Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms. ~Carl Boyer, 1949, calculus textbook



It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature. ~Author Unknown



Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. ~G.K. Chesterton



He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. ~Raymond Hull



I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. ~Heywood Broun



Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. ~Bill Maher



Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism. ~Leo Buscaglia



Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else? ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



There are no friends in wartime. ~Frank Burns, "Bug-Out," original airdate 21 September 1976, written by Jim Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum, directed by Gene Reynolds