Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Addison

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Phillips Brooks

Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.‎

Louisa May Alcott

Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.

Kevin White

It's just so sad. He always had such a loving and kind personality, always had a cheerful smile and always had a warm greeting for everyone he met.

William Shakespeare

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

Kurt Vonnegut

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

Charlie Munger

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ...

Michael Moore

As far as today is concerned, there has been no impact at all from the ban. Everybody is cheerful and supportive.

Emile M. Cioran

Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.

Baruch Spinoza

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Thomas Willis

Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

Soren Kierkegaard

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

Michael Haneke

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.

Isaac Mizrahi

I'm so involved in melancholy.

Loren Thompson

What you're seeing in these recent remarks is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how widely disliked Rumsfeld is.

John Gross

To have had a religious upbringing at least assures that in your own mind you are a Jew first, and the object of other people's dislike second

Hans Rosling

Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.

Walter Kirn

She started out all excited and impressed. ... (She took an immediate dislike to Bill, who struck her as a narcissistic snake.)

Harry Gray

I would dislike seeing that yard full of cars. Vail doesn't want to park in their town.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.

Mal Peet

I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.

Cecil Rhodes

How can I possibly dislike a sex to which Your Majesty belongs?

Preston Sturges

Much as I disliked the un-American idea of marrying a lady with a dowry, I must admit that little Mrs. Godfrey's little private income put everything in a faintly different light.