Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

smile

And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too. 5 wisdom & wit from Jim Valvano

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. 8 quotes from Dr. Seuss

They gave each other a smile with a future in it. 3 more wisdom & wit from Ring Lardner

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose. 5 other views from Tom Wilson

A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range! 5 quotes from Tom Wilson

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. 38 views from William Hazlitt

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. 18 other quotes from Washington Irving

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. 42 sayings from Josh Billings

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up. 5 wisdom & wit from Billie Holiday

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile. 53 more quotes from Honore de Balzac

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. 35 quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. 20 thoughts from Christopher Lasch

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. 58 other quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

Smile, it's free therapy. 16 quotes from Douglas Horton

When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile. 2 quotes from Charles Frohman

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye. 16 other sayings from Douglas Horton

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them. 14 other quotes from Andre Maurois

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. 8 other quotes from Raymond Chandler

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act. 6 quotes from Abraham Cahan

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness. 10 other quotes from Hermann Hesse

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon. 8 other thoughts from Nathaniel Hawthorne

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. 13 more sayings from Herman Melville

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. 18 quotes from Mother Teresa

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile? 26 other quotes from Jean de la Bruyere

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. 4 other sayings from Guy de Maupassant

Peace begins with a smile. 18 views from Mother Teresa

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again. 2 thoughts from Bret Harte

Look back, and smile on perils past. 15 thoughts from Walter Scott

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. 18 wisdom & wit from Mother Teresa

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. 9 other wisdom & wit from J. B. Priestley

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes. 6 views from Malcolm De Chazal

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs. 6 thoughts from Malcolm De Chazal

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening. 4 other sayings from Greta Garbo

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich. 63 more quotes from Samuel Johnson

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face. 6 more quotes from Malcolm De Chazal

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest. 27 more thoughts from Kin Hubbard

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. 2 other quotes from Elinor Wylie

Colors are the smiles of nature. 6 sayings from Leigh Hunt

Children learn to smile from their parents. 4 sayings from Shinichi Suzuki

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. 3 sayings from Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile. 7 quotes from Jean Giraudoux

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep. 2 wisdom & wit from Karl Shapiro

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne. 3 other views from Barry Cornwall

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. 74 quotes from Winston Churchill

Beauty is power a smile is its sword. 3 thoughts from John Ray

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. 8 views from Oliver Goldsmith

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears. 6 wisdom & wit from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles. 52 more sayings from George Eliot

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. 2 quotes from Julien Benda

Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned. 26 views from Emily Dickinson

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me! 7 more quotes from Samuel Smiles

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. 2 thoughts from Thomas Gray

The smile of God is victory. 7 more quotes from John Greenleaf Whittier

Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad. 4 other quotes from Christina Rossetti

They might not need me but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity. 26 more thoughts from Emily Dickinson

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. 3 thoughts from Paramahansa Yogananda

A smile is the universal welcome. 7 other quotes from Max Eastman

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. 36 wisdom & wit from Lord Byron

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country. 3 quotes from Zebulon Pike

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. 14 views from William Arthur Ward

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. 24 sayings from W. C. Fields

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life. 3 quotes from Jeanne Calment

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. 31 sayings from Thomas Paine

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. 73 other wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. 73 views from Victor Hugo

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me! 4 quotes from Samuel Pepys

Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye. 2 views from Samuel Lover