quotes about smiling and laughing

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects. ~Herodotus, The History of Herodotus


Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ~Henri Frederic Amiel


Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.


To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. ~Elbert Hubbard


Grammar is the grave of letters. ~Elbert Hubbard


Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" ~Robin Williams


I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. ~Sir George Porter, quoted in The Observer, 26 August 1973


Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. ~Potter Stewart


Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. ~Alfred Hitchcock


The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. ~William Westmoreland


We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. ~George MacDonald


There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other. ~O. Henry, Rolling Stones, 1912


A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. ~Victor Hugo


No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk


A cat isn't fussy - just so long as you remember he likes his milk in the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the blue plate. From which he will take it, and eat it off the floor. ~Arthur Bridges


There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. ~Ezra Pound


It was as true... as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them. ~Charles Dickens


The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. ~Thomas Jefferson


The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law. ~H.G. Wells, Bealby, 1915


Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned. ~Henry Drummond