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

smile

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.

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.

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

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

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

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.

Smile, it's free therapy.

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.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Peace begins with a smile.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

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

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

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.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Children learn to smile from their parents.

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.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

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.

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Beauty is power a smile is its sword.

Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.

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.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

The smile of God is victory.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

A smile is the universal welcome.

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

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

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

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

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.