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What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile. - George Asaf (pseudonym of George Henry Powell), Smile, Smile, Smile Smiles form the channels of a future tear. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto II, st. 97) Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his own country;--seldom since that day Has Spain had heroes. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto XIII, st. 11) But owned that smile, if oft observed and near, Waned in its mirth, and wither'd to a sneer. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Lara (canto I, st. 17, l. 11) From thy own smile I snatched the snake. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Manfred If a man smiles all the time, he's probably selling something that doesn't work. - George Carlin Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are. - Hartley Coleridge, She is not Fair In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. - Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (stave 2) A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. - Phyllis Diller The smile of her I love is like the dawn Whose touch makes Menmon sing: O see where wide the golden sunlight flows-- The barren desert blossoms as the rose! - Richard Watson Gilder, The Smile of Her I Love With the smile that was childlike and bland. - Bret Harte (Francis Bret Harte), Language of Truthful James (Heathen Chinee) A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon. - Nathaniel Hawthorne A lot of men think that if they smile for a second, somebody will take advantage of them, and they are right. - Don Herold They gave each other a smile with a future in it. - Ring Lardner Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye. - Samuel Lover, Rory O'More Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss? Three angels gave me at once a kiss. - George MacDonald, Baby (st. 7) A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. - Herman Melville For smiles from reason flow To brute deny'd, and are of love the food. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 239) A smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 618) The thing that goest farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile. . . . . It's full of worth and goodness too, with manly kindness blent, It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent. - Wilbur D. Nesbit, Let us Smile Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. - Alexander Pope, Prologue to Satires (l. 315) With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. - Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (canto V, st. 12) Nobly he yokes A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh Was that it was for not being such a smile; The smile mocking the sigh that it would fly From so divine a temple to commix With winds that sailors rail at. - William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (Arviragus at IV, ii) My tables--meet it is I set it down That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain. At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, v) Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit That could be moved to smile at anything. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Caesar at I, ii) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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