Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
~By Simon Wiesenthal ~
But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
~By John Ray ~
Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation.
~By Roma Downey ~
Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.
~By Andrei A. Gromyko ~
Smile, it's free therapy.
~By Douglas Horton ~
While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.
~By Shelley Berman ~
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.
~By Richard M. DeVos ~
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 ~
I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.
~By Charles de Lint ~
The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
~By Malcolm De Chazal ~
The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
~By Henry Morton Stanley ~
The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
~By Harvey Ball ~
The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
~By Neil Kinnock ~
Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
~By Samuel Lover ~
In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There's so many teams that are involved. You've got to smile because we're in it.
~By David Wells ~
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 ~
Peace begins with a smile.
~By Mother Teresa ~
Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
~By Thomas Gray ~
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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 ~
Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.
~By Gerald Massey ~
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 ~
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
~By Lord Byron ~
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 ~
It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride.
~By Chris Hadfield ~
A laugh is a smile that bursts.
~By Mary H. Waldrip ~
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
~By Julien Benda ~
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.
~By Abraham Cahan ~
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 ~
Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
~By Ovid ~
The bat is gone, but the smile remains.
~By Willie Stargell ~
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
~By Chief Joseph ~
A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
~By Arthur Baer ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.
~By Reba McEntire ~
Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.
~By John Krasinski ~
As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.
~By Cat Deeley ~
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 ~
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
You faced front, you seldom smiled, since levity was not the mark you wanted put across your face forever.
~By Michael Lesy ~
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
~By Anna Akhmatova ~
A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!
~By Tom Wilson ~
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 ~
When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.
~By Adrienne Barbeau ~
Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?
~By Jennifer Garner ~
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
~By Dr. Seuss ~
Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
~By Andrea Thompson ~
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
~By Thomas Paine ~
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.
~By J. M. Barrie ~
I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people.
~By Jennifer Saunders ~
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
~By Muriel Spark ~
I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.
~By Roma Downey ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
~By Herman Melville ~
Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
I love to smile.
~By Inge de Bruijn ~
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
~By Andy Rooney ~
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
~By James Thurber ~
The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
~By Robert Bloch ~
Children learn to smile from their parents.
~By Shinichi Suzuki ~
Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.
~By Joshua Homme ~
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
~By Goldie Hawn ~
The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
Smile at a stranger. See what happens.
~By Patti LuPone ~
I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.
~By Buddy Guy ~
When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.
~By Robert Southwell ~
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 ~
Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
~By Barry Cornwall ~
I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.
~By Jesse McCartney ~
A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.
~By Tom Wilson ~
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
~By Christina Rossetti ~
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
~By James M. Barrie ~
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
~By William Shakespeare ~
She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
~By Kate Chopin ~
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
~By Humphry Davy ~
Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
When you see that many people with a smile on their face, then you must be doing something right.
~By Greg Norman ~
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 ~
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 ~
I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.
~By Patti LaBelle ~
Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.
~By Anna Lee ~
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.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.
~By David Neeleman ~
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
~By Samuel Goldwyn ~
Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
~By Harold Pinter ~
Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
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 ~
What do I like in a girl? I like a girl that likes me, a girl that knows how to smile and see the bright side of things. A girl that makes me a better person.
~By James Lafferty ~
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
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 never smile unless I mean it.
~By Donny Osmond ~
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