Happier Times Quotes

• A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Sorrow, Crowns

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 75.

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• The poorest people are not people without money, but people without memories of happier times when they're down

  Kim Dong-joo

  Memories, Drama, People

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• The happier time, the quicker it passes

  Pliny the Younger

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• Endure and save yourselves for happier times.

  Virgil

  Endurance, Endure

  Virgil, Stanley Lombardo (2005). “Aeneid”, p.8, Hackett Publishing

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• Sound, sound the trump of Fame!
  Let Washington's great name
  Ring through the world with loud applause;
  Let every clime to Freedom dear
  Listen with a joyful ear.
  With equal skill, with god-like power,
  He governs in the fearful hour
  Of horrid war, or guides with ease,
  The happier times of honest peace.

  Joseph Hopkinson

  War, Skills, Names

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• Saving nickels, saving dimes, working 'til the sun don't shine, looking forward to happier times.

  Roy Orbison

  Work, Shining, Dimes

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• After winning Ascot's Queen Alexandra Stakes on Brown Jack- If you'd been on your honeymoon, you couldn't have had a happier time.

  Steve Donoghue

  Horse, Queens, Winning

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• Scarlett, from the ashes of the war-ravaged land at Tara, remembering what she was taught by her father in happier times: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me! I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again - no, nor any of my folks! If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill! As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

  Vivien Leigh

  Cheating, Father, War

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• Nor can We predict happier times for religion and government from the plans of those who desire vehemently to separate the Church from the state, and to break the mutual concord between temporal authority and the priesthood. It is certain that that concord which always was favorable and beneficial for the sacred and the civil order is feared by the shameless lovers of liberty.

  Pope Gregory XVI

  Government, Order, Church

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• Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill.

  David Blanchflower

  Time, Retirement, Should

  "The Secret to a Happier Retirement: Friends, Neighbors and a Fixed Annuity". online.wsj.com. July 27, 2005.

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• Remember when you were considered an environmentalist when you didn't throw junk out the car window? I sure do miss that simpler, happier time.

  Paula Poundstone

  Car, Missing, Junk

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