"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

                                – H. L. Mencken

It has also come up as "A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time."


"May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live."

"May the roof of this house never fall in and may these friends beneath it never fall out."