Ogden Nash Quotes

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

One of the things you don't usually mess with is happy.

Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Satisfaction is a major player in the happiness stakes.

I want happiness for the players.

I am really happy here in England.

They say people live to be happy. If you actually think about what happiness is, it's nothing much. When you get to eat ramen after feeling really, really hungry, that's happiness.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Our goal should be to achieve joy.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

As long as folks are happy, I'm happy.

I live the perfect life.

For me, I'm very happy in Atlanta.