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'.
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'.
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
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
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.
Rejoice,O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Bible (Old Testament)— Ecclesiastes11:9.
And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea. And when the disciples saw himwalking onthesea, they weretroubled, saying,It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear. But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
Bible (NewTestament)— St Matthew14:25-7.
Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up.
Peter Carey— 2002 In the Observer,18 Aug.
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)
[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.
— Siris (1744), paragraph 217. Compare: "Cups / That cheer but not inebriate", William Cowper, The Task, book iv, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Ever of thee I'm fondly dreaming,Thy gentle voice my spirit can cheer.
george linley— Ever of Thee, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
A fresh green the smelling leaves displayAnd glittering as they tremble, cheer the day
thomas parnell— from the poem The Hermit
Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.
Edmund Burke— Speech at Bristol Previous to the Election (6 September 1780).
It's time to stand up - not to cheer, but to fight back.
russ feingold— Sen Feingold's dailykos.com Blog Entry on Executive Power. [2006-02-02]
We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we Will drink to him, whate'er he be, And sing the songs he loved to hear.
— Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), CVII.
Friar Lawrence alone, with a basket The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, Check’ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light; And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels From forth day’s path and Titan’s burning wheels. Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye The day to cheer and night’s dank dew to dry. I must spill this oster cage of ours With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.
— William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet Act II, Scene 3, in "Elke Platz-Waury Drama und Theater: Einführung, Gunter Narr Verlag, 1980, p.27, and also in “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare:Figurative Language Study Guide”
Whenever you do what is holy, be of good cheer, knowing that God Himself takes part with rightful courage.
— Menander, p. 167
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)
We are tenting tonight on the old camp ground, Give us a song to cheer.
— Walter Kittridge, Tenting on the Old Camp Ground.
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
— Thomas Tusser in "The Farmer's Daily Diet" from A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557).
Let's dance and sing and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
— G. Macfarren, From a Fragment. (Before 1580).
