quotations about smiles and smiling
I've squandered smiles today,
And, strange to say,
Altho' my frowns with care I've stowed away,
Tonight I'm poorer far in frowns than at the start;
While in my heart,
Wherein my treasures best I store,
I find my smiles increased by several score.
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
"A Smiling Paradox", Songs of Cheer
There is a smile of love,
And there is a smile of deceit,
And there is a smile of smiles
In which these two smiles meet.
WILLIAM BLAKE
"The Smile", Poems from the Pickering Manuscript
Why do you smile the smile you do
Happiest girl I ever knew
Wanted to feel the joy
Pass between our eyes
Wanted to feel the joy
Pass between our thighs
And I would have to pinch her
Just to see if she was real
Just to watch the smile fade away
And see the pain she'd feel
DEPECHE MODE
"Happiest Girl"
For smiling, to do good, either to those who smile or to those who look on, must convey kindly feeling. There are those whose smiles are almost terrifying. They can express many kinds of ill feeling, including dislike, resentment, suspicion, cruelty. Then there are smiles that are puzzling, that sometimes create uneasiness. These smiles are often called "enigmatical." The smile on the face of the Mona Lisa is of this kind. It makes some people uncomfortable. And we all know the truth of Shakespeare's saying that a man may smile and smile and be a villain still. And yet we all believe that this kind of smiling is sure to betray itself. In it there can't be anything wholesome, anything that would help to uplift the spirit.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"Smiling", Intimations
Some girls can't even wear a smile without looking in the mirror to see if it fits.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.
THICH NHAT HANH
Being Peace
A cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.
LYDIA HOWARD SIGOURNEY
Letters to Young Ladies
Smiling is one of the most important social cues, and people have been doing it since forever. Actually, smiling predates the existence of modern people by quite a lot. Primatologist Signe Preuschoft traces the smile back over 30 million years of evolution to a "fear grin" stemming from monkeys and apes.
MIHAI ANDREI
"According to scientists, these are the three kinds of smile", ZME Science, July 31, 2017
A smile is a magnet that "attracts" other people to us. And heck, it just feels good to do!
RICH CASTELLANO
The Smile Prescription
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
JUDITH GUEST
Ordinary People
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"
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
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
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 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
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
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 ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without its dew?
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations
For smiles from reason flow
To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.
HANK AARON
attributed, Baseball's Greatest Quotations