W. N. P. Barbellion Quotes

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.

Janice Connolly is one of them people that whenever you see her, she's happy.

It's a divine art to be cheerful.

Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.

If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.

Oh, I’m just a happy person.

When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.

How can you be dour when you have a tiny duck?

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well -but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.

Let's put a smile on that face!

I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.

If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.

I have a good attitude. And I was born with a happy heart. I'm always looking for things to be better.

Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white - who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior.

Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.

A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

I'm gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

And smile, you know I always tell the girls to smile because I hate sad faces.