See Also: BRIGHTNESS, GAIETY, HAPPINESS, SMILES

1. All smiles … as if ready for a thousand little curtseys —Andre Malraux
2. (She was) as bubbly as a magnum of champagne —Harry Prince
3. [A movie] as heart-warming as an approaching headache —Vincent Canby, New York Times, March 21, 1986
4. [A young girl] blithe and airy as a wind-swept leaf —Sylvia Berkman
5. Blithe as a boy —Pamela Hansford Johnson
6. [A sunlit room] bright and bouncing as a newly bathed baby —John Braine
7. Bright as a chirping bird —Stephen Longstreet
8. Buoyant as a bride —Thomas McGuane
9. Cheerful as a grove in spring —William Wordsworth
10. Cheerful as the rising sun in May —William Wordsworth
11. (Smile … as) cheerful as the winter solstice —William Mcllvanney
12. A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather —Benjamin Franklin
13. Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possessions —Victor Hugo
14. Cheerfulness opens, like spring, all the blossoms of the inward man —Jean Paul Richter
15. Encouraging as a round of applause —Anon
16. (I am) gay as morning, light as snow —Dorothy Parker
17. Optimistic as a sweepstake ticket buyer —Anon
18. Optimistic as a company spokesperson —Anon
19. Positive as good news —G. K. Chesterton
20. Positive as the forecast in a Chinese fortune cookie —Elyse Sommer
21. Radiant like a work of art, full of strange rays —Iris Murdoch
22. (She’s always happy. She) shies away from misery like a petrified horse —Carolyn Slaughter
23. Sunny and open as a May morning —Willa Cather