#happily

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. ↗

— Plato

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I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after! ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#after #another #being #chance #ever

Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship. Yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational women to set her straight. ↗

— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

#happily-ever-after #humor #marriage #dreams

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. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#discover #happily #her #how #man

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics. ↗

— Sidney Altman

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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. ↗

— Victor Borge

#his #married #wife

I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef. ↗

— Vince Cable

#cattle #cook #doing #encourages #farm

Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary. ↗

— Barry Humphries

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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#honourably #i #live #long #necessary

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience. ↗

— Diane Keaton

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