A Quote by Helen Rowland

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

Helen Rowland

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Helen Rowland
American - Writer
1875 - 1950

I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim of someone else's life, I know, but made it to keep the innocent safe and the guilty punished, and I have made it as the world should be and not as I have found it.

Amy Bloom

To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

Susan B. Anthony

Latin America and the Caribbean are the happiest on average in the world.

Max Fisher

I'm happiest in nature, in trees, rivers, streams, and I'm happiest around my kid - you know that's the funny thing, he is not always in the best of moods, but I am always happiest around him and in nature. Around my family is where I am happiest.

Gregory Porter

The tough-minded ... respect difference. Their goal is a world made safe for differences, where the United States may be American to the hilt without threatening the peace of the world, and France may be France, and Japan may be Japan on the same conditions.

Ruth Benedict

If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.

Satish Kumar

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I used to think that if I made $50,000 I'd be the happiest guy in the world.

Kirk Kerkorian

The biggest and loudest weddings don't always produce the happiest marriages.

Gyles Brandreth

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

George Eliot

The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.

John Bayley

In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salvation. As we begin to master the destructive potentialities of modern science, we move toward a new era in which science can fulfill its creative promise and help bring into existence the happiest society the world has ever known.

John F. Kennedy

Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.

Sydney J. Harris

But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men! Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?