"The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control." ― Ogden Nash Topic(s): Happiness More From Ogden Nash "Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you." "A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." "Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else." More In Happiness "If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place."― Lord Halifax "When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse."― Sophocles "Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night."― Joyce Grenfell