Smiles Quotes

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother - In - Law.

Japanese Prove

Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

Sophocles

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 Lavate

Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.

Marcus Aurelius

Gather ye rose - Buds while ye may, Old Time is still a - Flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.

Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.

Unknown

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be.

Pink Floyd

We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Washington Irving

Present your religion to a little child, set him in the midst of those who profess it. If it frightens him, and freezes the smiles on his lips, then whatever sort of religion it is, it is not Christianity.

Unknown

I do not want a friend Who smiles when I smile Who weeps when I weep For my shadow in the pool Can do better than that.

Confucius

Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

O. Henry, "Gift of the Magi, " 1906

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Thomas Paine

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Mark Twain

In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear - Eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999