“A light wind swept over the corn; and all nature laughed in the sunshine.”
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XV : An Encounter and its Consequences; Gilbert Markham
Variant: A good laugh is a sunshine in a house.
“A light wind swept over the corn; and all nature laughed in the sunshine.”
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XV : An Encounter and its Consequences; Gilbert Markham
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)
1842
Source: Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)
“Good morning, sunshine, time to go.”
Matthew Good (1971) Canadian singer-songwriter
At Last There is Nothing Left to Say
Mark Leckey (1964) British artist
"GreenScreenRefrigeratorAction" (2010)
“He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.”
Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
No. 10.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
This appears as an anonymous proverb in Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine Vol. XIII, (January - June 1883) edited by T. De Witt Talmage, and apparently only in recent years has it become attributed to Addison.
Disputed
“My appearance still made people laugh, with that hearty jovial laugh so good for the health.”
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish novelist, playwright, and poet
The End (1946)