Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Cheerful
Cheerful as the birds.
—Anonymous
Cheerful as a mute at a funeral.
—Anonymous
Cheerful as the lively morn.
—John Armstrong
As cheerful … as singing lark.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Cheerful as the day.
—William Cowper
Cheerful as the summer’s morn.
—John Cunningham
Cheerful as the day was long.
—Charles Dickens
Cheerful as a prince.
—Mrs.
—Gaskell
Cheered … like the bright eye of a friend.
—James Hedderwick
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
—Victor Hugo
Cheerful, as one who knows that he is redeemed.
—Charles Kingsley
Cheering as a suburban London Sunday’s promenade.
—George Meredith
Cheerful and yet profound like an October afternoon.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Cheerfulness opens, like spring, all the blossoms of the inward man.
—John Paul Richter
Cheerful … as the green winter of the holly-tree.
—Robert Southey
Cheering as the hymn of “Hark from the Tombs.” Thomas Watson
As cheerful as a grove in Spring.
—William Wordsworth