funny quotes about smiling

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. ~Henri Amiel



Firemen: your worst day is our everyday. ~Michael Perry, volunteer firefighter from Wisconsin, as quoted in Into the Fire, a documentary presented by Fireman's Fund Insurance Company and directed by Bill Couturie



Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~Mark Twain



We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid. ~Gerard Vanderhaar



Farmer: "You should have seen how he treated them when I wasn't around."



America is the best half-educated country in the world. ~Nicholas Murray Butler



Baseball is too much of a sport to be a business and too much of a business to be a sport. ~Phillip Wrigley



Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. ~J.B. Priestley



Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. ~Samuel Pepys



I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. ~Rosika Schwimmer



A man's kiss is his signature. ~Mae West



I dream of hiking into my old age. ~Marlyn Doan



Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin



My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. ~Andre Gide



We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower



It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. ~Author unknown, sometimes attributed to M. Grundler



Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~Jean Anouilh



When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. ~Brian Aldiss