Happiness is a good deed

How far that little candle throws his beams!

So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

-- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 5 Scene 1

Happiness is John Gay's chosen epitaph

 

 

 Life is a jest, and all things show it,

I thought so once, and now I know it.

-- John Gay (1685 – 1732)

Happiness is biddy biddy bum, all day long

If I Were A Rich Man

  

If I were a Rothschild

If I Were Rothschild • Sholem Aleichem

Happiness is a sweet song

 

 

 Thy songs are sweeter to mine ear,

Than to the thirsty cattle rivers clear,

Or winter porridge to the lab'ring youth,

Or bunns and sugar to the damsel's tooth.

-- John Gay (1685-1732)

Happiness is the birds of spring

 

The painted birds, companions of the Spring,

Hopping from spray to spray were heard.

-- John Dryden

Happiness is a glorious spring day in Grand Rapids, MI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I didn't do a dang thing I was supposed to do. Instead I raked the leaves away from the fence line and from under the deck, and started a fire to burn them with in ye olde fire pit, using the old twigs and branches from last fall and winter. The birds got fresh water in the bird bath. The wind was gentle, the sun bright and the temperature was just oh so right. It was a glorious three hours. And now I'm tired. Good and tired. And a little bit sun-fried.  

Happiness is episode one of McHale's Navy, the sitcom, from October 1962

In which we learn that before the war, McHale [Ernest Borgnine] was the captain of a camp steamer in the South Pacific and is in possession of a deep familiarity with "Taratupa" and all its fictional surrounding environs, which won him a commission as a commander of PT-73 once war had broken out with Japan.

An Ensign for McHale