Collection of sentences on the smile, aphorisms on smiling and quotes on the positive effects of smiles on other people, a simple gesture that costs nothing in the service of others.
Quotes on smile
- I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror. (Charlie Chaplin)
- It takes seventy-two muscles to pout but only twelve to smile. Try it for once. (Mordecai Richler)
- Always smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile. (Jim Morrison)
- The unexpected grace of an intelligent smile is enough to make the layers of tedium deposited by days fly away. (Nicolás Gómez Dávila)
- The robbed who smiles, steals something from the thief. (William Shakespeare)
- Better the joy of a sad smile than the sadness of not knowing how to smile.
- The most witty authors produce the most imperceptible smile. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
- Beauty is power; a smile is his sword. (Charles Reade)
- A smile is like a toothbrush. You have to use it often to keep your teeth clean.
- We will never know how well a simple smile can do. (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
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- A smile can add a thread to the very short plot of life. (Laurence Sterne)
- Children are without a past and this is all the mystery of the magical innocence of their smile. (Milan Kundera)
- Give a smile when you want to cry. (Alessandro Manzoni)
- To provoke a smile is almost always another smile.
- Rice is the sun that drives winter away from the human face. (Victor Hugo)
- All the statistics in the world cannot measure the warmth of a smile. (Chris Hart)
- Rice is the shortest distance between two people.
- Life is like a mirror: it smiles at you if you look at it smiling. (Jim Morrison)
- Two smiles approaching end up becoming a kiss. (Victor Hugo)
- The most authentic smiles are those that illuminate our faces when nobody looks at us. (Minhal Mehdi)
- Always smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.
- I love and live in silence but behind every smile I hide a tear of pain.
- The art of life is to learn to suffer and to learn to smile. (Hermann Hesse)
- Everything is absurd and splendid simultaneously. Tears in a smile: it is the most beautiful aspect of humanity. (Georges Clémenceau)
- Smile in the mirror. Do this every morning and you will start to see a big difference in your life. (Yoko Ono)
- Our smile is younger than us. (Roger Judrin)
- A smile is the cheapest way to change your look. (Charles Gordy)
- A smile can add a thread to the very short plot of life. (Laurence Sterne)
- Laugh whenever you can: it's a cheap medicine. (George Gordon Byron)
- When life gives you a thousand reasons to cry, it shows that you have a thousand and one reasons to smile.
- It takes seventy-two muscles to pout but only twelve to smile. Try it for once.
Aphorisms on smile
- Never stop smiling even when you are sad, because you don't know who could fall in love with your smile. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- A smile is the medium chosen for each ambiguity. (Herman Melville)
- A delicate word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can shape wonders and perform miracles. (William Hazlitt)
- I have many problems in my life. But my lips don't know. They always smile. (Charlie Chaplin)
- There is a smile of love, and there is a smile of seduction, a smile there are smiles, where those two smiles meet. (William Blake)
- Before pouting, check if there are no smiles available. (Jim Beggs)
- A confident person has a bright smile.
- The best way to show your teeth is with a smile. (Henry Miller)
- If everyone did it even once a day, give a smile, imagine that incredible contagion in a good mood would spread on the earth. (Marc Levy)
- If you look back you may remember something that will never come back. If you look ahead you may think of something that will never come. Close your eyes and reopen them only when you have the strength to go back without crying and look forward smiling.
- If sometimes you don't receive the smile you were hoping for, be generous and give yours. (Dalai Lama)
- We are happy because we smile and not vice versa. (William James)
- Wear a smile and you will have friends; wear a pout and you will have wrinkles. (George Eliot)
- A day without a smile is a lost day. (Charlie Chaplin)
- He who never laughs is not a serious person. (Fryderyk Chopin)
- A man can smile, and smile, and be a rogue. (William Shakespeare)
- The unexpected grace of an intelligent smile is enough to make the layers of tedium deposited by days fly away.
- If everyone did it even once a day, give a smile, images that incredible contagion in a good mood would spread on the earth?
- Life is short. Break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love deeply, laugh uncontrollably and never regret what made you smile. (Mark Twain)
- What the Sun is for flowers, smiles are for humanity. (Joseph Addison)
- A smile is a curve that straightens everything. (Phyllis Diller)
- Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are ahead of me. (Thích Nhat Hanh)
- Peace begins with a smile. (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
- Do not betray those who smile at you: they could have death in their hearts and still give you some life. (Jim Morrison)
- Never stop smiling, even when you are sad, because you never know who could fall in love with your smile.
- Rice is the sun that drives winter away from the human face.
- Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there is so much to smile. (Marilyn Monroe)
- Look back and smile at past dangers. (Walter Scott)
- Take a smile and give it to someone who has never had it. Take the goodness and give it to those who cannot give. (Mahatma Gandhi)
- Life is like a mirror: it smiles at you if you look at it smiling. (Jim Morrison)
- A day without a smile is a lost day. (Charlie Chaplin)
Phrases on smile
- Rice is the sun that drives winter away from the human face. (Victor Hugo)
- Be generous with your energy. Be generous with your smiles.
- Wrinkles show that you are old, decrepit, or that you are used to always smiling. (Carlos Santana)
- I firmly believe that a smile is the most beautiful accessory that a woman can wear. (Audrey Hepburn)
- Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are ahead of me. (Thích Nhat Hanh)
- To start the day I choose a coffee, to continue it, a smile. (Stephen Littleword)
- A day without a smile is a lost day. (Charlie Chaplin)
- A woman can veil her face with a smile. (Khalil Gibran)
- The scars are the sign that it has been hard. The smile is the sign that you made it. (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
- Is a question a smile? Or is it the answer? (Lee Smith)
- Wrinkles should simply indicate the place where the smiles were. (Mark Twain)
- Young people smile for no reason. It is one of their main reasons for charm. (Oscar Wilde)
- Who knows how to laugh is master of the world. (Giacomo Leopardi)
- The fool raises his voice while laughing; but the wise man just smiles silently.
- Wrinkles should simply indicate the place where the smiles were.
- A delicate word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can shape wonders and perform miracles. (William Hazlitt)
- That a smile can add a thread to the subtle web of life. (Laurence Sterne)
- You are never fully dressed without a smile. (Martin Charnin)
- It was only a smile, and it cost little to give it but, like the morning light, it dissipated the darkness and made the day worth living. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Showing yourself simple and smiling is the supreme art of the world. (Sergej Aleksandrovic Esenin)
- It was a single God who created the wolf and the lamb and then smiled, seeing that this was good. (André Gide)
- If we all confess our sins to each other, we would certainly laugh at our total lack of originality.
- A smile lasts only an instant, but in memory it can be eternal. (Friedrich Schiller)
- Man! You swing between a smile and a tear. (George Gordon Byron)
- The best way to overcome difficulties is to attack them with a magnificent smile. (Roben Baden Powel)
- What the sun is for flowers, smiles are for humanity. (Joseph Addison)
- Laugh, and the world will laugh with you; you cry, and you will cry alone. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
- He was so sad that he smiled with one lip. (Jules Renard)
- Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. (Thích Nhat Hanh)
- I want to see you laugh. A Christian has no reason to be sad and has many reasons to be happy. (Ignatius of Loyola)
- You love for a smile, for a look, for a shoulder. (Marcel Proust)
- We don't smile because something good has happened, but something good will happen because we smile.
