Top Cheerful Quotes
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
Leigh Hunt
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
Henry Van Dyke
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
Thomas Arnold
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha Washington
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. All Cheerful Quotes
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
Leigh Hunt 
62% of people like this quote
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
Henry Van Dyke
58% of people like this quote
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
Thomas Arnold
56% of people like this quote
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
56% of people like this quote
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha Washington
56% of people like this quote
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
Alice Walker
55% of people like this quote
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
Henry Brooks Adams
55% of people like this quote
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.
Crystal Eastman
54% of people like this quote
The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
Rita Dove
54% of people like this quote
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
Jimmy Breslin
54% of people like this quote
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