If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
—Andy Rooney (b.1919) American Writer, Humorist, TV Personality
Start every day with a smile, and get it over with.
—W. C. Fields (1880–1946) American Comedian, Actor, Writer
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
A smile shortens the distance between two people.
—Unknown
Everyone smiles in the same language.
—Unknown
A smile can brighten the darkest day.
—Unknown
The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.
—Unknown
Smile—it increases your face value.
—Unknown
Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, as shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744) English Poet
A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape: it embellishes an inferior face, and redeems an ugly one.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss Theologian, Poet
Wear a smile—one size fits all.
—Anonymous
If you don’t start out the day with a smile, it’s not too late to start practicing for tomorrow.
—Unknown
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
—Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
If you smile at someone, they might smile back.
—Unknown
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
—Charles Reade (1814–84) English Novelist, Playwright
Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day.
—Anonymous
It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown.
—Anonymous
If you don’t have a smile, I’ll give you one of mine.
—Unknown
Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
—Walter Anderson
Never frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.
—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
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
Keep smiling—it makes people wonder what you’ve been up to.
—Unknown
Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.
—Anonymous
Smiles from reason flow, to brute denied, and are of love the food.
—John Milton (1608–74) English Poet, Civil Servant, Scholar, Debater
A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life’s worthwhile.
—Unknown
What a sight there is in that word “smile!” it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.
—Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) Canadian Author, Humorist, Jurist
Smiling is my favorite exercise.
—Unknown
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibarruri (1895–1989) Spanish Communist Leader
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