quotations about smiles and smiling
A smile is the advertisement of a laugh.
CHRISTOPHER ANSTEY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
CHARLES READE
White Lies
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
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
A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.
HOSEA BALLOU
Treasury of Thought
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
A tender smile, our sorrows' only balm.
EDWARD YOUNG
Love of Fame
Smile your smile of total tenderness
Smile the smile that takes away the rain
Smile away my total emptiness
For I never wanna have to cry again
OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN
"Smile For Me"
If laughter is the daylight of the soul, a smile is its twilight.
BENJAMIN BRANDRETH
attributed, Day's Collacon
Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile.
Don't let your joy and laughter hear the snag
Smile boys, that's the style
THE ANDREWS SISTERS
"Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag"