quotes about smiling

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ~Arthur Schopenhauer



'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. ~Lord Byron



Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. ~Andre Gide, Nourritures Terrestres



The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up. ~Author Unknown



We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ~Author Unknown



I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. ~Lucan



The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. ~Henri Frederic Amiel



The impossible is often the untried. ~Jim Goodwin



Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article. ~Bob Frankston



Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. ~Marcel Proust



Food. Water. Shelter. Air. Sleep. Societal inflation has expanded need into greed. Suddenly the basic survival needs also include a cell phone, cable TV, and French manicured fingernails.... We've become the absolute biggest whiners of all human history with the absolute smallest justification for whining. ~Charlie Diekatze



I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ~Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991



I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life. ~Bill Clinton



Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. ~Goethe



Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing? ~Samuel Goldwyn



In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. ~Terry Pratchett



Suicide is... the sincerest form of criticism life gets. ~Wilfred Sheed, The Good Word, 1978



If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? ~Linda Ellerbee



The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. ~Author Unknown