A Quote by Harry Emerson Fosdick

Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Happiness Mostly Pleasure Victory

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Harry Emerson Fosdick
American - Priest
May 24, 1878 - October 5, 1969

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

From the year of his birth in 1914 until the outbreak of war in 1941, my father lived in a mostly white, mostly working-class, mostly Irish Catholic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.

Tim O'Brien

I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.

Ruskin Bond

I love New Zealand. Every time I'm in New Zealand someone makes a joke about it being mostly sheep, which I think is unfair, because it's mostly nice people. It's mostly nice people and really wonderful scenery.

Patrick Stump

In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved.

Laura Schlessinger

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

D. H. Lawrence

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

Dennis Ritchie

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

John Barth

When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.

Bill McKibben

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

Deborah Meier

We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.

Jane Harman

Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.