quotations about smiles and smiling
A smile is worth its face value.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Powder your face with sunshine, put on a great big smile
Make up your eyes with laughter
Folks will be laughing with you, in a little while
Whistle a tune of gladness, blue never was in style
The future's brighter when hearts are lighter
So smile, smile, smile
DEAN MARTIN
"Powder Your Face With Sunshine"
'Cause baby
You smile
I smile
Whoa
'Cause whenever
You smile
I smile
Hey, hey, hey
JUSTIN BIEBER
"U Smile"
Nothing is so beautiful as the smile of a countenance habitually melancholy; like a gloomy day, it is irradiated by a sudden burst of sunshine.
G. P. MORRIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
A smile that glow'd
Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.
THICH NHAT HANH
Being Peace
Smile, darn ya, smile
You know this great world is a good world after all
Smile, darn ya, smile
And right away watch lady luck pay you a call
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.
"Smile, Darn Ya, Smile"
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
JUDITH GUEST
Ordinary People
A cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.
LYDIA HOWARD SIGOURNEY
Letters to Young Ladies
A smile is like a candle in a lonely darkened room,
Proving light is always master over dreary, dark and gloom.
J. P. LUCAS
Wisteria: Fresh Flowers from an Old Vine
The meaning of a smile is, as it were, a meaning that presupposes a situation, a meeting, an encounter, a set of previous personal relationships. It acknowledges the interpersonal situation and adds a further determination, a further constituent, to the present situation. It does not so much describe the subject as reveal him, betray him. There is no deduction from the smile to the person, but by the smile the person becomes, as it were, transparent. He is in communication with another, and that communication is something that antedates the distinction between sign and what is signified, the distinction between the soul that means and the body by which the meaning is expressed.
BERNARD LONERGAN
"Time and Meaning", Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan
A smile is not true or false in the manner in which a conceptual meaning is true or false. It is truth in the sense in which one can say that a person is true, a thing is true. But it is usually not true in the sense in which a proposition is true or false.
BERNARD LONERGAN
Early Works on Theological Method
The thing that goes farthest towards making life worth while,
That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.
W. D. NESBIT
Let Us Smile
Those happy smilets,
That play'd on her ripe lip, seem'd not to know
What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence,
As pearls from diamonds dropp'd.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
The man who falls in love with a smile often makes the mistake of marrying the rest of the girl.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without its dew?
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations
A smile is a magnet that "attracts" other people to us. And heck, it just feels good to do!
RICH CASTELLANO
The Smile Prescription
Smile, though your heart is aching
Smile, even though it's breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
CELTIC WOMAN
"Smile"
A smile is recognized in every culture and serves important social functions -- inviting friendship, showing deference and even hoping for appeasement.
MAX A. EGGERT
Body Language for Business
For smiles from reason flow
To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost