Cheerfulness Quote by Adam Smith

God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.

— Garrison Keillor

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes upon itself…

— Joseph Conrad

“As a serf, poor Christian has already been killed several times in our class. Aside from dying of the Black Plague on the first…

— Cynthia Hand

“The normal Christian Life is not supposed to be an exhausting wrestling match with a dead man, but is an abundant, joy-filled life with…

— Kris Vallotton

There is laughter that goes so far as to lose all touch with its motive, and to exist only, grossly, in itself. This is…

— Max Beerbohm

The Christian is not superficial in any sense, but is fundamentally serious and fundamentally happy. You see, the joy of the Christian is a…

— Anonymous

Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep, and not a few…

— R. Kent Hughes

“Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven,…

— George will

He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after…

— Socrates

These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts and words…

— Henry David Thoreau

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no…

— Henry Taylor

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

— Voltaire