quotations about smiles and smiling
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
I feel in every smile a chain.
JOHN WOLCOT
Pindariana
We human beings are very proud of being the only animals that can smile. And yet we don't show a very proper appreciation of our gift. Though we may realize its magical qualities, we often fail at the critical moment to use them. For example, we may know that when we have to choose between smiling and frowning the consequences will greatly affect our own peace of mind. If we frown we shall be further involved in trouble. If we smile we may obviate the trouble.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"Smiling", Intimations
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 a magnet that "attracts" other people to us. And heck, it just feels good to do!
RICH CASTELLANO
The Smile Prescription
He smiled like he couldn't help it. She couldn't believe it. He was actually smiling, teeth and all. Had she ever seen him smile before? No, she realized, because right now, it was such a jarring thing to witness that for a moment it felt as though she was sharing the car with a stranger.
KELLY CREAGH
Nevermore
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"
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
If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.
THICH NHAT HANH
Being Peace
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
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 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
A smile is the advertisement of a laugh.
CHRISTOPHER ANSTEY
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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
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
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"
For smiles from reason flow
To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
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