Cheerfulness Quote by Benjamin Rush

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind…

— Joseph Addison

Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by…

— Orison Swett Marden

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short…

— Joseph Addison

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Mirth is God's medicine.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

— Leigh Hunt

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.

— William Shakespeare

Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.

— Proverb

In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.

— Willis Gaylord Clark

Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to…

— Henry Ward Beecher