#miser

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

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There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery. ↗

— Danny Boyle

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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort. ↗

— Helen Gurley Brown

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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true. ↗

— David D. Burns

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The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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