Cheerful Quotes - Page 9

The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)

The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility.

And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful.

The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.

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

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!

Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health.

On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful.

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

At bottom, I'm a cheerful person.

Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

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

O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road Singing beside the hedge.

What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

I'd like to think of my self as not melancholic at all, I think I'm a pretty cheerful person, really.

Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way.

There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence.

I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.