We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
~By Malcolm De Chazal ~
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
~By O. Henry ~
I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
~By Alanis Morissette ~
Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.
~By Simon Travaglia ~
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
~By Dr. Seuss ~
I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.
~By Ray Conniff ~
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.
~By Jim Allchin ~
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived.
~By Michael Jackson ~
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
~By Josh Billings ~
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
~By Thomas Chandler Haliburton ~
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
~By William Shakespeare ~
The bat is gone, but the smile remains.
~By Willie Stargell ~
Smile, it's free therapy.
~By Douglas Horton ~
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
~By Ovid ~
Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!
~By William Cartwright ~
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
~By Jim Morrison ~
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
~By Julie Burchill ~
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
~By Mother Teresa ~
The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.
~By Steve Guttenberg ~
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.
~By Karl Shapiro ~
Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.
~By Douglas Horton ~
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
~By Christina G. Rossetti ~
The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
~By Neil Kinnock ~
You're never fully dressed without a smile.
~By Martin Charnin ~
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Children learn to smile from their parents.
~By Shinichi Suzuki ~
He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.
~By Emo Philips ~
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
~By Guy de Maupassant ~
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.
~By Earl Hines ~
I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.
~By Richard H. Davis ~
We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.
~By Neil Cavuto ~
Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.
~By Jimmy Connors ~
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
~By Harvey Ball ~
A smile costs about $240.
~By Roma Downey ~
Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.
~By James Young ~
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
~By Julien Benda ~
Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.
~By Samuel Hopkins ~
A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.
~By Tom Wilson ~
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
~By Simone Weil ~
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
~By Sinclair Lewis ~
I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.
~By Ofra Haza ~
You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
~By Brad Garrett ~
I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces.
~By Shannon Miller ~
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
~By Nhat Hanh ~
If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.
~By Charlie Hunnam ~
As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
~By Samuel Pepys ~
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.
~By Connie Stevens ~
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
~By Joseph Howe ~
The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
I will know how to hold you just by the look in your eye, I will never forget - not even on the day that I die. This is a promise of my passion for you, smile at me and make it true.
~By Diana Lynn ~
Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.
~By Earl Long ~
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.
~By Thomas Kretschmann ~
Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.
~By Nhat Hanh ~
There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
~By Willie Stargell ~
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
~By John Ray ~
I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.
~By Patti LaBelle ~
There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
~By Billie Holiday ~
Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.
~By Avery Brooks ~
Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
~By Malcolm De Chazal ~
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
~By Christina Rossetti ~
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
~By Amelia Barr ~
A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.
~By Robert Baden-Powell ~
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
~By Ring Lardner ~
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
~By Doug Coupland ~
We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.
~By Jay Garner ~
Some people know that they are so adorable looking, all they have to do is smile and dress up and they get plenty from that. Then there are some of us who, early on, see that that doesn't work. So we joke about it.
~By Merrill Markoe ~
The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.
~By Allison Krauss ~
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
~By Anna Akhmatova ~
So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.
~By Jo Brand ~
And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.
~By Jim Valvano ~
Look back, and smile on perils past.
~By Walter Scott ~
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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.
~By Elinor Wylie ~
If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
~By Karen McDougal ~
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
~By Paramahansa Yogananda ~
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
~By Georg Brandes ~
I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.
~By Jesse McCartney ~
Peace begins with a smile.
~By Mother Teresa ~
I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been.
~By Margaret Mahy ~
Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.
~By Jeanne Calment ~
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
~By Muriel Spark ~
Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.
~By Byron Nelson ~
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
~By Washington Irving ~
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.
~By Reed Hastings ~
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.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.
~By William C. Bryant ~
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