I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard. — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity. — G K Chesterton Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
No, no, no. There's no such thing as cheap and cheerful. It's cheap and nasty & expensive and cheerful. — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The cozy fire is bright and gay, The merry kettle boils away and hums a cheerful song. I sing the saucer and… — Barry Pain Copy Share Image
One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay,… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of… — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Copy Share Image
Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?"… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Here sighs and cries and shrieks of lamentation echoed throughout the starless air of Hell; at first these sounds resounding made me… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire; Blest that abode, where want… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image