Jovial Quotes:

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

- Washington Irving

topic: Happiness, Laughter, Wine, Humour And Laughter, Jovial

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.

- Jerome K. Jerome

topic: Revenge, Men, Doe, Jovial

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Mistake, Women, Serious, Jovial, Taciturn

Our jovial star reigned at his birth.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Stars, Astrology, Birth, Jovial

I am perfectly satisfied that my Father and my god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured Being. Why? Because I am cheerful, pleasant, lively and good-natured when I have His Spirit…. That arises from the perfection of His attributes; He is a jovial, lively person, and a beautiful man.

- Heber C. Kimball

topic: Beautiful, Father, Men, Jovial

If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

- Earl King

topic: Bored, Albums, Serious, Jovial

My god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured being.

- Heber C. Kimball

topic: Cheerful, Lively, Pleasant, Jovial

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

- Ben Okri

topic: Fathers Day, Courage, Adversity, Jovial, Rollercoaster

I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.

- Jimmy Cliff

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Jovial

A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.

- Danai Gurira

topic: Zombie, Apocalypse, Situation, Jovial, Zombie Apocalypse

We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself.

- Richard Chenevix Trench

topic: Stars, Astrology, Jupiter, Saturn, Jovial

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Christmas, Men, Feelings, Jovial, Misanthrope

Al was standing a bare three feet away, his mood almost jovial as he took the paper and it vanished in a wash of black sparkles. “Thank you, Rachel,” he said, carefully reaching for my hand as Trent stiffened. “Welcome back, my itchy witch.

- Kim Harrison

topic: Hands, Feet, Black, Jovial, Itchy

The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.344, Pan Macmillan

topic: Girl, Morning, Party, Jovial, School Days

People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness.

- Howard E. Wasdin

topic: Thinking, Talking, People, Jovial, Kind Hearted

Not to get too depressing, I've always been a slight whirling dervish in my life. I've always been at once a very spritely and energetic hilarious lady, but at the same time there is an equal dark side that's as comparable to the jovial - constantly walking on the high wire trying to figure out who to be each day.

- Karen Elson

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Depressing, Dark, Trying, Jovial, Whirling Dervish