Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke
Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
Fanny Burney
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open... →
John Burroughs
The secret of happiness is something to do.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
William S. Burroughs
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores... →
Robert Burton
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia