Cheer Quotes
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
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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
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.
: 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.
Lie soft, sleep hard, drink wine, and eat good cheer.
thomas middleton— 1613 A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (published1630), act1, sc.1.
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).
Seraphs and saints with one great voice; Welcomed that soul that knew not fear. Amazed to find it could rejoice, Hell raised a hoarse, half-human cheer.
john davidson— "A Ballad of Hell", p. 85.
Why don't they just accept that life is sad and cheer up it's not forever.
jeremy hardy— The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, June 2008
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
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.
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)
The sweetness of the gospel lies mostly in pronouns, as me, my, thy. "Who loved me, and gave Himself for me." "Christ Jesus my Lord." " Son, be of good cheer, thy sins are forgiven thee."
— Martin Luther, p. 289. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
— Augustus Cæsar to Piso. See Plutarch, Apothegms. "Eternal Rome" said by Tibullus, II. 5. 23. Repeated by Ammianus Marcellinus—Rerum Gestarum, XVI, Chapter X. 14. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 677.
Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.
— 9:2 (KJV) Said to a man sick of the palsy.
Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
— 14:27 (KJV).
Ever of thee I'm fondly dreaming, Thy gentle voice my spirit can cheer.
george linley— George Linley, Ever of Thee.
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)
Upon a showery night and still, Without a sound of warning, A trooper band surprised the hill, And held it in the morning. We were not waked by bugle notes, No cheer our dreams invaded, And yet at dawn, their yellow coats On the green slopes paraded.
— Helen Gray Cone, The Dandelions.
...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
