Smile at a stranger. See what happens.
~By Patti LuPone ~
Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
~By George Byron ~
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 ~
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.
~By William C. Bryant ~
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
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 ~
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
~By Anne Roiphe ~
People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.
~By Serj Tankian ~
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 ~
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.
~By Winston Churchill ~
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
~By Guy de Maupassant ~
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 ~
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
~By Muriel Spark ~
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 ~
The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
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 ~
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
~By William Arthur Ward ~
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
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 ~
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 ~
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
~By Mother Teresa ~
Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.
~By William R. Benet ~
Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
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 ~
Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
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 ~
When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.
~By Charles Frohman ~
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 ~
A smile is the universal welcome.
~By Max Eastman ~
Most smiles are started by another smile.
~By Frank Howard Clark ~
The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
~By Neil Kinnock ~
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 ~
When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.
~By Arrigo Boito ~
If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
~By Red Skelton ~
Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
~By Samuel Lover ~
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
~By Robert Smith ~
But somehow I feel like still it's a gift, and I wonder, how can I give this gift to others? Just work hard, and do whatever I can do, to be that, and to return the love to the fans. I like to give them joy and smiles to them. Give back to them.
~By Bai Ling ~
Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.
~By Horace Porter ~
I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces.
~By Shannon Miller ~
Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.
~By Connie Stevens ~
Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.
~By Freddy Fender ~
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 ~
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 ~
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
~By Lord Byron ~
Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.
~By Andrei A. Gromyko ~
A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.
~By Robert Baden-Powell ~
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
~By Susanna Moodie ~
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
~By Dr. Seuss ~
The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.
~By Steve Guttenberg ~
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
~By Denis Waitley ~
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 ~
I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.
~By Janis Ian ~
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 ~
They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
~By Ring Lardner ~
I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.
~By Robert Powell ~
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.
~By Thomas Dekker ~
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 ~
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.
~By Giacomo Leopardi ~
In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.
~By Arthur Bremer ~
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
~By Maya Angelou ~
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
When you walk into a room, a healthy, beautiful smile is incredibly important.
~By Susan Anton ~
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
~By Joseph Howe ~
I love a girl that can make me laugh. I am not really a laugh-at-things type of guy and I don't smile and laugh all the time... But if a girl can make me laugh... I'm in love!!!!
~By Jesse McCartney ~
When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.
~By Robert Southwell ~
A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.
~By Tom Wilson ~
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 ~
The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
~By Harvey Ball ~
I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile.
~By Jason Ritter ~
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
~By Victor Hugo ~
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 ~
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 ~
Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.
~By George Cooper ~
There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.
~By Samantha Mumba ~
Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.
~By Douglas Horton ~
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.
~By Charles Wolfe ~
Children learn to smile from their parents.
~By Shinichi Suzuki ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.
~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
~By Henry Morton Stanley ~
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 ~
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 made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright.
~By Harvey Ball ~
Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.
~By Julian Huxley ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
Look back, and smile on perils past.
~By Walter Scott ~
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 ~
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
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