Happiness is Gussie Fink-Nottle telling off Madeline with "I shall now eat a ham sandwich"

 

Happiness is mercy

 

 The quality of mercy is not strain'd;

It droppeth as the gentle rain of heaven

Upon the place beneath. It is twice bless'd;

It blesses him that gives, and him that takes.

-- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene I

Happiness is three synonyms for a simpleton

 Have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus, that has saved that clod-pated, numskull'd, ninny-hammer of yours from ruin, and all his family?

-- John Arbuthnot, History of John Bull, (1667-1735)

Happiness is knowing how to tell the age of sheep

 When sheep is one shear,

they will have two broad teeth before;

when two shear, four;

when three, six; when four, eight:

and, after that, their mouths break.

 

-- John Mortimer (c.1656-1736)

Happiness is Talking Heads' Once in a Lifetime 1980

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.

-- Ecclesiastes 1:9

Meteorologist Donald Trump on Hurricane Hilary

 

Happiness is The Vapors' Turning Japanese 1980

 

LOL of the day

 

Happiness is a bed of leaves

 Within a thicket I repos'd, when round

I ruffl'd up fal'n leaves in heap, and found,

Let fall from heaven, a sleep interminate.

-- George Chapman (1539-1634)

The best thing about COVID-19 was . . .

. . . I could not work at home, instead of not working at work.

Happiness is at least seven people coming to your funeral

 Because only six came to Thomas Paine's.

Happiness is the advantage possessed by age and guile over youth and innocence

 

Unlike The General Lee, this one DUI lol

 

Happiness is still living rent-free in England's head

 

Happiness is Jack Schitt's profile at LinkedIn

 

Happiness is foraging for edible mountain herbs and greens in Cisalpine Gaul

 

Happiness is a vacation to Puerto Backyarda

 

Happiness is an oldie but a goodie

 

Happiness is clover when you have no manure

  

 Clover is the best way of improving clays, where manure is scarce.

-- John Mortimer (c.1656-1736)

Happiness is Radio Taiso Snow Edition