A friend’s frown is better than a fool’s smile.
—Danish Proverb
Smiles are the language of love.
—David Hare (b.1947) English Dramatist, Director, Film-Maker
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
—Unknown
That smile you give. God, every time I think I can live without you, you give me that smile. You really shouldn’t do that to me.
—Unknown
A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it.
—Unknown
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) British Poet
Don’t open a shop unless you like to smile.
—Chinese Proverb
Smile—it increases your face value.
—Unknown
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
If I thought that a smile of mine, might linger the whole day through and lighten some heart with a heavier part, I’d not withhold it—Would you?
—Unknown
If you haven’t seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven’t seen her smile her prettiest.
—Kin Hubbard (1868–1930) American Cartoonist, Humorist
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your mother-in-law.
—Japanese Proverb
Smiling is my favorite exercise.
—Unknown
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
—Unknown
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
—Charles Reade (1814–84) English Novelist, Playwright
I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill-health, and other evils of life, by mirth. I am persuaded that every time a man smiles—but much more so when he laughs—it adds something to this fragment of life.
—Laurence Sterne (1713–68) Irish Anglican Novelist, Clergyman
The robb’d that smiles steals something from the thief: He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
You haven’t lost your smile at all, it’s right under your nose. You just forgot it was there.
—Unknown
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
—Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali Poet, Polymath
Smiles form the channel of a future tear.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
Start every day with a smile, and get it over with.
—W. C. Fields (1880–1946) American Comedian, Actor, Writer
Smile; If you can’t lift the corners, let the middle sag.
—Unknown
Smiling is infectious; you can catch it like the flu. Some smiled at me today, and I started smiling too.
—Anonymous
The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.
—Unknown
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy—the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love.
—Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) Canadian Author, Humorist, Jurist
I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
—Unknown
Don’t go for the looks, it can be quite deceiving. Don’t go for wealth, even that fades away—go for someone who makes you smile because only a smile makes a dark day seem bright. Hope you find that person.
—Indian Proverb
Once in each man’s life fortune smiles.
—Latin Proverb
Most smiles are started by another smile.
—Frank A. Clark
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