A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Joseph Addison. American wreter  知足是人生在世最大的幸事。
美国作家艾迪生.J. 
A lifetime of happiness!No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on erath.
G.Bernard Shaw.British dramatist  终身幸福！这是任何活着的人都无法忍受的，那将是人间地狱。
英国剧作家肖伯纳.G. 
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas Carlyle, British historian and essayist  写得很好的生活和过得很好的生活几乎一样少。
英国历史学爱、散文家卡莱尔.T. 
Absence of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant is a mind distress.
William Cowper, British poet  无所事事不是休息，十分空虚的心灵是痛苦的心灵。
英国诗人考伯.W. 
All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, and self-denial, and study.
Willian Graham Sumner, American sociologist  我们得到的一切幸福都是劳动、辛苦、自我克制和学习的成果。
美国社会学家萨姆纳.W.G. 
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall not be disap-pointed.
Alexander Pope. British Poet  一无所求的人是幸福的，因为他永远也不会失望。
英国诗人蒲伯.A. 
Call no man happy till he dies, he is at best but fortunate.
Solon, ancient Athenian statesman  人不进棺材，谁也称不上幸福，而至多不过是幸运。
古雅典政治家梭伦 
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
A.M S. Boethius, Ancient Roman statesman  在所有不幸中，最不幸的事是曾经幸福过。
古罗马政治家伯修斯.A.M.S. 
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' garden.
D.W.Jerrold, British dramatist  幸福生长在我们自己的火炉边，而不能从别人的花园中采得。
英国剧作家杰罗尔德.D.W.  (来源：英语聊天室 http://chat.EnglishCN.com)
Happiness is a butterfly, which ,when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
N. Hawthorn, American writer  幸福是一只蝴蝶，你要追逐它的时候，总是追不到；但是如果你悄悄地坐下来，它也许会飞落到你身上。
美国作家霍桑.N. 
Happiness is a form of courage.
H.Jackson, British writer  幸福是勇气的一种形式。
英国作家杰克逊.H. 
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead , now usually attributed by adults to children, and by childuren to adults.
Szasz Thomas, American psychiatrist  幸福是想象中的东西。从前，生者认为死者幸福，孩子则认为大人幸福。
美国精神病学家托马斯. S. 
Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.
C.Pollock ,British jutist  幸福是太多和太少之间的一站。
英国法学家波洛克.C. 
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by--product.
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, American president's wife  幸福不是目的，而是一种副产品。
美国总统罗斯福的夫人埃莉诺 
Happiness is not something you experience; it's something you re-member.
O.Levant, Ameican pianist  幸福不是你经历的事，而是你记得的事。
美国钢琴家利万特 . 
Happy is the man who is living by his hobby.
G.Bernard. Shaw, British dramatist  醉心于某种癖好的人是幸福的。
英国剧作家肖伯纳.G. 
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
George Sand, French woman writer  幸福在于自知拥有幸福。
法国女作家乔治·桑 
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Frandlin Roosevelt, American President.  幸福不在于拥有金钱，而在于获得成就时的喜悦以及产生创造力的激情。
美国总统罗斯福. F. 
Hope is itself a species of happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson. British writer.  希望本身是一种幸福，也许是这个世界能提供的主要的幸福。
英国作家约翰逊.S. 
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin, American president  与其说人类的幸福来自偶尔发生的鸿运，不如说来自每天都有的小实惠。
美国总统富兰克林.B. 
Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.
John Ray, Averican naturalist  勤劳是财富的右手，节俭是她的左手。
美国博物学家雷伊.J 
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
A. Repplier, American fimale essayist  要在自身找到幸福是不容易的,要在别的地方找到幸福则是不可能.的。
美国女散文家里普利厄.A. 
Jobs and work do much more than most of us realize to provide happi-ness and contentment.
Leonard R. Sayles, American writer  职业和工作在使人得到幸福与满足方面所起的作用比我们大多数意识到的要多得多。
美国作家塞尔斯.L.R. 
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau, American writer  人是自己幸福的设计者。
美国作家棱罗.H.D. 
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Limcoln . American ruesident  对于大多数人来说，他们认定自己有多幸福，就有多幸福。