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HAPPINESS
Happiness is not something you experience, it's something you remember.
Oscar Levant
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George Orwell
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
Alan Alda
HATRED
The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron
It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.
Samuel Butler
HEALTH
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
Mark Twaine
Early to rise and early to bed
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
James Thurber
Health food makes me sick.
Calvin Trillin
HISTORY
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow
History would be a wonderful thing- if it were only true.
Leo Tolstoy
History is bunk.
Henry Ford
Historian: an unsucessful novelist.
H.L. Mencken
HOLIDAY
Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival.
Jonathan Miller
HOLLYWOOD
I've been asked if I ever get the DT's; I don't know; it's hard to tell where Hollywood ends and the DTs begin.
W.C. Fields
Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.
Wilson Mizner
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
Fred Allen
HUMAN RACE
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
Bertolt Brecht
It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
H.L. Mencken
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Don Marquis
HUMILITY
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
Fran Lebowitz
HUMOR
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurber
HUSBAND
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
Groucho Marx
A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.
Saki
LADY ASTOR: If you were my husband, Winston, I'd put poison in your tea.
WINSTON CHURCHILL: If I were your husband, Nancy, I'd drink it.