"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."
― Charles Caleb Colton
Topic(s):
Happiness
― Charles Caleb Colton
More From Charles Caleb Colton
- "Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console."
- "There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter."
- "The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down."
More In Happiness
- "Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified."― Polly Toynbee
- "There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people."― Anwar Sadat
- "It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him."― Max Planck