Smile Quotes
Shakespeare, Byron, Lord Chesterfield, John Cleese and Milton share the top. Because the topic takes in laughter, the sourced material is dry. Bierce, in 1911, defines laughter as an interior convulsion producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. Mencken, in 1949, defines a creator as a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh. Einstein, in 1953, warns that whoever sets himself up as a judge of truth is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Three popular lines are marked misattributed. “A day without laughter is a day wasted” is credited to Charlie Chaplin, and the notes quote an older and longer passage making the same point. “Remember me with smiles and laughter” is credited to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a poem about the thing that goes the farthest toward making life worthwhile, a smile, to Wilbur D. Nesbit.
Fight virtue's cause, stand up in wit's defence,
Win us from vice, and laugh us into sense.
For smiles from reason flow
To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span,
Because to laugh is proper to the man.
I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes. Though I'm gonna be on for an hour.
The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.
No one will be more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
There is a snake in thy smile, my dear,
And bitter poison within thy tear.
But owned that smile, if oft observed and near,
Waned in its mirth, and wither'd to a sneer.
Truth's sacred fort th' exploded laugh shall win,
And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley with a grin.