Happiness is June Carter and Johnny Cash singing Jackson

 

Apples harvested too early can taste like the soil

 

 The cyder at first is very luscious, but if ground more early, it is more racy.

-- John Mortimer (c.1656-1736), The Whole Art of Husbandry

Happiness is 15 minutes of solar noon sunlight

  For most white people, a half-hour in the summer sun in a bathing suit can initiate the release of 50,000 IU (1.25 mg) vitamin D into the circulation within 24 hours of exposure; this same amount of exposure yields 20,000–30,000 IU in tanned individuals and 8,000–10,000 IU in dark-skinned people. ... spending a few minutes outdoors (3–15 minutes for whites and 15–30 minutes for blacks) when the sun is highest in the sky, with 40% of the skin area exposed.

 

For more see "Benefits of Sunlight: A Bright Spot for Human Health".

Happiness is a '68 magic bus

 

Happiness is neither poverty nor riches

Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the LORD?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and profane the name of my God.

-- Proverbs 30:8f.

Happiness is the electric performance by Paul Anka of his 1957 hit Diana, inspired by a boyhood crush

 

Happiness is Number 1 by the 1960s folk band The Highwaymen

 It's a long way down . . .

Happiness is Joe's two cents for your thoughts

 

Happiness is the clear head of the morning

 As soon as Phoebus' rays inspect us,

First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.

-- Matthew Prior

Happiness is belly-timber

 The strength of every other member

Is founded on your belly-timber.

-- Matthew Prior

Happiness is fourteen miles to the Cumberland Gap

 

 

Lay down, Boys, and take a little nap, Lay down, Boys, and take a little nap, Lay down, Boys, and take a little nap, Fourteen miles to the Cumberland Gap.

Cumberland Gap with its cliffs and rocks Home of the panther, bear and fox. The first white man in Cumberland Gap, Was a Doctor Walker, an English chap.

Happiness is jibber jabber, just not in my courtroom

 

Happiness is the 1982 "Mumbo Jumbo" TV ad

 

Happiness is the most important difference between your smart phone and your dumb phone

 With the smart phone you can butt-dial a conference call and piss-off multiple people all at once instead of annoying just one person by mistake.

Happiness is the 1960 hit "Wings of a Dove" performed by Ferlin Husky

 

Happiness is having a pulse!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nyuk, nyuk.

Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. ... And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat. 

-- Daniel 1:12, 15

Happiness is correct use of the comparative degree

 

Happiness is the cowslip

 And I serve the fairy queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green.
The cowslips tall her pensioners be:
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours,
In those freckles live their savours:

-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 2, Scene 1

Happiness is a ground-dwelling bird

 Have you mark'd a partridge quake,

Viewing the tow'ring falcon nigh?

She cuddles low behind the brake;

Nor would she stay, nor dares she fly.

 

-- Matthew Prior

Happiness is Sam Cooke's 1960 "Wonderful World"