Cheerfulness Quote by Joseph Addison

“Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment.”

— Joseph Addison

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

— Leigh Hunt

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

— Benjamin Rush

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

Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --

— Emily Dickinson

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

— Joseph Addison

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

— Willis Gaylord Clark

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

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

— Bible

A cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away.

— Wes Fesler

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

— Rudyard Kipling