Happiness is a ridinghood in winter

 Good housewives all the winter's rage despise,

Defended by the ridinghood's disguise.

 

-- John Gay (1685-1732)

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in New Jersey

 

Happiness is the end of election season

 

Happiness is oats in England, if you are a horse

 

A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. 

-- Samuel Johnson

Happiness is retiring to the country with your friends

 All hail, ye fields, where constant peace attends!

All hail, ye sacred, solitary groves!

All hail, ye books, my true, my real friends,

Whose conversation pleases and improves!

-- William Walsh (1663-1708)

Happiness is a silver saucepan

 If your butter when melted tastes of brass, it is your master's fault who will not allow you a silver saucepan. 

-- Jonathan Swift

Happiness is the word queue

 

Happiness is freedom from anxiety

 To be happy, is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience, and tranquillity of mind.

-- John Tillotson (1630-1694)

Happiness is whole wheat toast, raw honey, Saigon cinnamon, and pecan halves: The faster, easier, cheaper, and healthier morning cinnamon roll

 Still works for me!

toast it

slather it

sprinkle it

top it

Happiness is Enrico Caruso singing Verdi, Rigoletto: Act III: La donna é mobile

 

Woman is flighty.
Like a feather in the wind,
she changes in voice
and in thought.

Always a lovely,
pretty face,
in tears or in laughter,
it is untrue.

Refrain
Woman is fickle.
Like a feather in the wind,
she changes her words
and her thoughts!

Always miserable
is he who trusts her,
he who confides in her
his unwary heart!

Yet one never feels
fully happy
who from that bosom
does not drink love!

Refrain
Woman is fickle.
Like a feather in the wind,
she changes her words,
and her thoughts!

Happiness is grape season

 Come, thou monarch of the vine,

Plumpy Bacchus, with pink eyne,

In thy vats our cares be drown'd.

-- William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra, Act 2, Scene 7

Happiness is the Ramones 1992 It's Gonna Be Alright

 

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