Cheer Quotes - Page 13
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.34
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life's machinery.
Orison Swett Marden (1910). “Getting on”
Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”
The smile on your face is sometimes out of place, don't mind no frowns, cheer down.
Song: Cheer Down
Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.333, Routledge
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1917). “The Collected Poems”
If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.
"Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, Michael Moorcock, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
'The Task' (1785) bk. 4 'The Winter Evening' l. 34.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Poetry of Sir Walter Scott: The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The Lady of the Lake, Translations and Imitations from German Ballads, Marmion, Rokeby, The Field of Waterloo, Harold the Dauntless, The Wild Huntsman…”, p.152, e-artnow
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
Sir Walter Scott (1838). “Poetical works”, p.278