Cheerful Quotes - Page 19

• Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee and croissants, quite peculiar to itself. The people welcome a new day as if they were certain of liking it, the shopkeepers pull up their blinds serene in the expectation of good trade, the workers go happily to their work, the people who have sat up all night in night-clubs go happily to their rest, the orchestra of motor-car horns, of clanking trams, of whistling policemen tunes up for the daily symphony, and everywhere is joy.

  Nancy Mitford

  Morning, Coffee, Night

  Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”

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• Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.

  Isaac Watts

  Men, Mind, Lovely

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• There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Country, Depressing, Father

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• He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he may use them in every possible form, as well as that he may do with the most perfect freedom; therefore, whether he wishes to make the subject of a joyous, solemn, or meditative character, by flinging over it the cheerful aspect which the sun bestows, by a proper disposition of shade, or by the appearances that beautify its arising or its setting, a true "General Effect" should never be lost sight of.

  John Constable

  Powerful, Character, Artist

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• Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor.

  Ellen Goodman

  Morning, Odor, Boots

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• I can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master's footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog.

  Mother Teresa

  Dog, Littles, Spirituality

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• The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Men, May, Towns

  Alice Morse Earle (2016). “Stage-coach and Tavern Days”, p.46, Library of Alexandria

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• All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Awful

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “One Art: Letters”, p.287, Macmillan

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• Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required.

  Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

  Agency, Mind, Contentment

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• Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

  Earl Weaver

  Water, Optimism, Mind

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• Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.

  Philip Massinger

  Looks, Crowns, Welcome

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• Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Poor, Permit

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.2121, Delphi Classics

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• Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

  Grenville Kleiser

  Love, Life, Family

  Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”

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• The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.

  Horace

  Melancholy, Dislike

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• You are. I'm just fatalistically cheerful. We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends.

  Peter Watts

  Stories, Ends, Halfway

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.89, Head of Zeus

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• To bear adversity with meek submission to the will of God; to endure chastisement with all long-suffering and joyfulness; to appear cheerful amid surrounding gloom, hopeful amidst desponding circumstances, happy in God when there is nothing else to make us happy; he who does this has indeed made great advances in the divine life.

  John Angell James

  Adversity, Long, Hopeful

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 565, 1895.

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• Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other; as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Mirrors, Would Be, Records

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.

  Statius

  May, Dignity, Forget

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• Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen.

  Teresa of Avila

  People, Progress, Pace

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• For the air of youth,
  Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign
  A melancholy damp of cold and dry
  To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume
  The balm of life.

  John Milton

  Air, Blood, Hopeful

  John Milton (1842). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.494

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• If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Home, Wife, Taverns

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• Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.

  Ruth Gordon

  Attitude, Next, Firsts

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• I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, - being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.

  John Brown

  Views, Purpose, Ends

  James Redpath, John Brown (1860). “The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth”, p.351

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• If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Depressing, Thinking, Want

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• How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green... the flowers are more fragrant... and the sun, moon, and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Nature

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