"The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control." ― Ogden Nash Topic(s): Happiness More From Ogden Nash "There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all." "Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore." "Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them." More In Happiness "Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be."― John Dryden "So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests."― Barbara Ehrenreich "One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex."― Margaret Thatcher