Cheer Quotes
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
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More Cheer Quotes
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
william cowper— The Task (1785), Book IV, line 36.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eyeWho cheer when soldier lads march by,Sneak home and pray you'll never knowThe hell where youth and laughter go.
siegfried sassoon— "Suicide in the Trenches"
Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.
jesus christ— The Gospel of Matthew 9:2b (KJV), said to a man sick of the palsy.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.
john muir— The Yosemite (1912), chapter 15: Hetch Hetchy Valley
One only hope my heart can cheer, The hope to meet again.
george linley— George Linley, Song
O fickle Fortune, why this cruel sporting? Why thus torment us poor sons of day? Nae mair your smiles can cheer me, nae mair your frowns can fear me, For the flowers of the forest are a' wade away.
Richard Cobden— 1765 'The Flowers of the Forest'. wade = weeded. The last line is often rendered 'For the flowers of the forest are withered away'.
The growth of a large business is merelya survival of the fittest? The American Beauty rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. 692
— Quoted inW J Ghent Our Benevolent Feudalism (1902).
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather, to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
christina rossetti— 1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.
A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing all you hear is the booing.
lance armstrong— As quoted in "King of the Hill" by Kelli Anderson in Sports Illustrated (5 August 2002)
From behind the shadow of the still small voice — more awful than tempest or earthquake — more sure and persistent than day and night — is always sounding full of hope and strength to the weariest of us all, "Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
thomas hughes— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 80.
When Spring came on with fresh delightTo cheer the soul, and charm the sightWhile every easy breezes, softer rainAnd warmer suns salute the plain
thomas parnell— from Anacreontic
I was feeling a bit down, I went to a therapist a few times, at a hundred bucks a pop. But then I realized that no therapy session would ever cheer me up half as much as if I was just strolling along and found a hundred dollar bill.
emo philips— As quoted in Psychology Today (July 2006)
Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
françois rabelais— Chapter 20 : How the Quintessence cured the sick with a song
I was feeling a bit down, I went to a therapist a few times, at a hundred bucks a pop. But then I realized that no therapy session would ever cheer me up half as much as if I was just strolling along and found a hundred dollar bill.
emo philips— As quoted in Psychology Today (July 2006)
At Christmas play, and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
thomas tusser— Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, Chapter XII.
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
william cowper— 1785 The Task, bk.4,'The Winter Evening', l.34-9.
: Bad language or abuse, I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though 'Bother it' I may Occasionally say, I never use a big, big D : What, never? : No, never! : What never? : Well, hardly ever! : Hardly ever swears a big, big D Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the well-bred Captain of the Pinafore!
Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert— CAPTALLCAPTALLCAPTALL1878 HMS Pinafore, act1.
I think it’s a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit.
jeremy clarkson— Sunday Times November 8, 2009 [6]
The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.
— Address to the students of Brown University, quoted in Ida Tarbell (1904) The History of the Standard Oil Company
cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.
robert jordan— Old saying in Randland
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
james russell lowell— Democracy and Addresses.
The pretty Lark, climbing the Welkin cleer, Chaunts with a cheer, Heer peer I neer my Deer; Then stooping thence (seeming her fall to rew) Adieu (she saith) adieu, deer Deer, adieu.
guillaume de salluste du bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Weekes and Workes, Fifth Day.
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America.
florence king— Florence King, Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye, St. Martin's Press: 1990, page 33
— Originally published by Black Swan: 1989 (unknown page)
Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.
— 9:2 (KJV) Said to a man sick of the palsy.
Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth, And the brook cries like a child! Not a rainbow shines to cheer us; Ah! the sun comes never near us, And the heavens look dark and wild.
mary howitt— The Wet Summer. From the German.
For there is no friend like a sister, In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands.
christina rossetti— "Goblin Market and other Poems" (1862)
...When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling (31 August 2009), p.9
