I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

Today's misery is real unemployment home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Happiness was not made to be boasted but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy nor fear them.

More company increases happiness but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Happiness or misery is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator most probably from a life to misery and misfortune and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

There is a set of religious or rather moral writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine and to which we have but one objection namely that it is not true.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Money if it does not bring you happiness will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

From their teenage years on children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care therefore cannot be taken in forming our principles.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

I am about to be married and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.