“If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.”
“You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.”
“I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!”
“Remain cheerful,For nothing destructive can pierce throughThe solid wall of cheerfulness.”
“The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.”
“It is like a hard row to hoe to say cheerio to a person of good cheer who cheers you.”