„Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.“

— Ambrose Bierce

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„Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.“
— Ambrose Bierce
„Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.“
— Hunter S. Thompson
„FUTURE, n.That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.“
— Ambrose Bierce
„In vain she told herself that he was unworthy any woman's trust and love, still the unconquerable sentiment that once made her happiness now remained to become her torment.“
— Louisa May Alcott
„The true woman will not be exponent of another, or allow another to be such for her. She will be her own individual self, — do her own individual work — stand or fall by her own individual wisdom and strength stand or fall by her own individual wisdom and strengh… She will proclaim the "glad tidings of good news" to all women, that woman equally with man was made for her own individual happiness, to develop every power of her three fold-nature, to use, worthily every talent given to her by God, in the great work of life.“
— Susan B. Anthony
„To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald