Cheerfulness Quote by Thomas Love Peacock

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up…

— Aristotle

“A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and the gods.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“I aspire to wisdom, my lady. I do not believe I possess it, not yet. But my lord Ptolemy Solon holds that happiness is…

— Jacqueline Carey

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

— Michel de Montaigne

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts.

— Elizabeth Ann Seton

“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with…

— Sophocles

Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and…

— Anonymous

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired…

— John Tillotson

The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the profit and…

— Richard Cumberland