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cheer●cheerful●chuckle clown●comedian comedy●comic●comical

cheer n 1. state of mind; feeling; spirit; mood 2. gladness; joy; gaiety; encouragement

cheer vt 1. to make happy or glad 2. To grow or be cheerful

cheer●ful adj gay; joyful; full of cheer cheer●ful●ly adv cheer●ful●ness n

Be of good cheer.

William Shakespeare

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

H. G. Wells

Fake feeling good… You’re going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not, eventually that effort will pay off: you’ll actually start feeling happier.

Jean Bach

I can’t be happy every day, but I can be cheerful.

Beverly Sills

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance…a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

Proverbs 15:13–15

Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.

Franz Joseph Haydn

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

Jean Paul Richter

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn’t let them get her down.

Beverly Sills

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

Victor Hugo

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

chuck●le vi to laugh in mild amusement, softly in a low tone

A chuckle a day may not keep the doctor away, but it sure does make those times in life’s waiting room a little more bearable.

Anne Wilson Schaef

clown n a person who plays the fool, invents jokes or pranks; a buffoon

A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.

Groucho Marx

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

Mel Gussow

A clown sees life simply, without complications.

George Bishop

A clown is a poet in action.

Henry Miller

A good clown caricatures his fellow men;

a great one parodies himself.

Pierre Mariel

It is meat and drink to me to see a clown.

William Shakespeare

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.

Thomas Sydenham

The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do.

We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.

James Hillman

Clowns are ordinary folk, jest like you and me, only worse.

Edward Fitchner

I remain just one thing and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Charlie Chaplin

The more one suffers, the more, I believe, one has a sense of the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires the authority in the art of the comic.

Søren Kierkegaard

What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.

Denis Diderot

God writes a lot of comedy…the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.

Garrison Keillor

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

Mel Brooks