I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these principles, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.
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Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after,...
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
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Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - an aberration, which is happily almost impossible - it would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.
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And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after.
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While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
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He who would travel happily must travel light.
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The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.
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While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
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We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized that we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said, 'Wait a minute, we love these sheep--they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?' It was the last time we ever did.
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The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.
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Ah Mozart He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
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It rots a writer's brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily you're well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.
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Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family...
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Alimony: funds which allow a woman who lived unhappily married to live happily unmarried.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.
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Some people never find it, some only pretend, but I just want to live happily ever after every now and then.
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
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Let us live most happily, free from hatred in the midst of the hateful; Let us remain free from hatred in the midst of people who hate.
Buddha
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