“ There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. ”
- James M. Barrie- Copy
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“ The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
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“ The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing. ”
- Neil Kinnock- Copy
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“ War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own. ”
- Katherine Anne Porter- Copy
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“ I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter. ”
- Beverly Sills- Copy
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“ Nothing in poverty so ill is borne as it's exposing men to grinning scorn. ”
- John Oldham- Copy
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“ And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ Life is an earnest business, and no one ever became good or great on a diet of broad grins. ”
- Professor Blackie- Copy
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“ Philanthropist. A rich old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face. ”
- Arthur Koestler- Copy
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“ Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin. ”
- John Christian Bovee- Copy
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“ The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
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“ The order of the world is always right — such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. ”
- Frank Muir- Copy
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