happiest quotes

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

- George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
  The Mill on the Floss, bk.6, ch.3.

Happiest when he is trying to sculpture fog.

- Christopher Charles Herbert Lehmann-Haupt
  On Robert C Christopher. In the NewYork Times, 29 May.

Was man auch sagen mag, der glu«  cklichsteAugenblick des Glu« c klichen ist doch der seines Einschlafens wie der unglu«  cklichste des Unglu«  cklichen der seines Erwachens. Whatever we may say, the happiest moment of the happy man is that of his falling asleep, just as the unhappiest moment of the unhappy man is that of his awakening.

- Arthur Schopenhauer
  DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.46 (translated by E F J Payne).

Poetry is a record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Defence of Poetry.

We have the happiest Africans in the world.

- Ian Douglas Smith
In the Observer, 28 Nov.