“Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.”
Old saying in Randland
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Popolo d'Italia (Feb. 1, 1921), quoted in The Menace of Fascism, John Strachey (1933) p. 65
1920s
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
Variant of this quote "The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up." is misattributed to Albert Einstein.
Source: According Quote Investigator Mark Twain did write a version of this saying in a personal notebook in 1896, and it was published by 1935 in “Mark Twain’s Notebook”. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/21/cheer-somebody/
“Be cheerful while you are alive.”
Maxim no. 34.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)
As quoted in "King of the Hill" by Kelli Anderson in Sports Illustrated (5 August 2002) http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2002/sportsman/flashbacks/lance/king_of_the_hill
“I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.”
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Reported in The Saturday Magazine (September 28, 1833), p. 118 https://books.google.com/books?id=jh_nAAAAMAAJ&pg=118.
Democracy and Other Addresses (1886)
