Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Cheerfulness is health; the opposite, melancholy, is disease. Haliburton.

Cheerfulness is just as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as colour to his cheek. Ruskin.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. Addison.

Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment. Dr. Horne.

Cheerfulness is the heaven under which everything 50 but poison thrives. Jean Paul.

Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. Schopenhauer.

Cheerfulness opens, like spring, all the blossoms of the inward man. Jean Paul.

Cheese is gold in the morning, silver at mid-day, and lead at night. Ger. Pr.

Chef de cuisine—A head-cook. Fr.

Chef-d'œuvre—A masterpiece. Fr. 55