If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.
—Common Proverb
It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown.
—Anonymous
Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor… let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eye, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
—Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun
Count your nights by stars, not shadows; count your life with smiles, not tears.
—Italian Proverb
Smile—it increases your face value.
—Unknown
All people smile in the same language.
—Unknown
Most smiles are started by another smile.
—Frank A. Clark
People worry, and God smiles.
—Hebrew Proverb
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
—Unknown
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning “Good morning” at total strangers.
—Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet
Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.
—Les Brown
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.
—Unknown
Something of a person’s character may be discovered by observing how he smiles.—Some people never smile; they only grin.
—Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American Writer, Aphorist
If you don’t start out the day with a smile, it’s not too late to start practicing for tomorrow.
—Unknown
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
—Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun
Looks kill love, and love by looks reviveth; a smile recures the wounding of a frown.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Everyone smiles in the same language.
—Unknown
If you don’t have a smile, I’ll give you one of mine.
—Unknown
The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.
—Unknown
A smile shortens the distance between two people.
—Unknown
Attitude Adjuster: When you smile at someone, nine times out of 10 the other person will smile back and you’ve made two people’s days brighter and better.
—Unknown
Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your mother-in-law.
—Japanese Proverb
Today we come across an individual who behaves like an automaton, who does not know or understand himself, and the only person that he knows is the person that he is supposed to be, whose meaningless chatter has replaced communicative speech, whose synthetic smile has replaced genuine laughter, and whose sense of dull despair has taken the place of genuine pain. Two statements may be said concerning this individual. One is that he suffers from defects of spontaneity and individuality which may seem to be incurable. At the same time it may be said of him he does not differ essentially from the millions of the rest of us who walk upon this earth.
—Erich Fromm (1900–80) German-American Psychoanalyst, Social Philosopher
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
—Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist
Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad.
—Christina Rossetti (1830–94) English Poet, Hymn Writer
A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life’s worthwhile.
—Unknown
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
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, Businessperson, Judge
There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss Theologian, Poet