52 Quotes by David Niven

Happy people are those who use a lower threshold in order to label an event positive.

Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.

There is no panacea for this kind of loss. Just know that every day it gets the tiniest bit better-- suddenly one day you can put it in a different perspective.

I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.