
„Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.“
— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980
A collection of quotes on the topic of smile, likeness, herring, love.
„Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.“
— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980
„Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.“
— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991
Often attributed to Dr. Seuss without citation; also cited as an anonymous proverb.
This quote has also been attributed to Gabriel García Márquez, in Spanish: "No llores porque ya se terminó, sonríe porque sucedió."
Compare lines from In Memoriam A.H.H. of Tennyson:
  'Tis better to have loved and lost
  Than never to have loved at all.
Disputed
Variant: Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
„Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.“
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
„You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.“
— Charlie Chaplin British comic actor and filmmaker 1889 - 1977
Lyrics to "Smile", written by John Turner and Geoffrey Claremont Parsons in 1954, the music of which was composed by Chaplin in 1936. - "Smile" music, as used in Modern Times (1936) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps6ck1ejoAw - "Smile" tribute to Chaplin, as sung by Michael Jackson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu-rLA4POkI
Misattributed
Context: Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though its breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by
If you smile with your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll find that life is still worthwhile If you just
Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile.
„I love those who can smile in trouble…“
— Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519
„The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.“
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
„Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.“
— Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935
„Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.“
— Christie Brinkley American model 1954
Total 1715 quotes smile, filter:
„In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.“
— Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001
— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981
Variant: You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect — you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break — her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.
„Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway“
— Robert Downey Jr. American actor 1965
Robert Downey Jr. on Inside The Actors Studio, quoting Judd Nelson, 2006-07-09
— Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a13040159/billie-eilish-interview/
„If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
„Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.“
— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962
— Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001
Source: https://www.wmagazine.com/story/billie-eilish-new-ep/
„I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!“
— Dolly Parton American singer-songwriter and actress 1946
Variant: If you see someone without a smile give them yours.
— Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Other sources
Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
Context: Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make somebody smile while they're having a piss.
„He smiled, and his face was like the sun.“
— Madeline Miller, book The Song of Achilles
Source: The Song of Achilles
— Meryl Streep American actress 1949
Misattributed to Meryl Streep (and widely disseminated on the Internet as of August/September 2014), this quote is allegedly a translation of a text by the author José Micard Teixeira, the original of which begins (in Portuguese): "Já não tenho paciência para algumas coisas, não porque me tenha tornado arrogante..."
Misattributed
— Emily Dickinson, Love — thou art high —
453: Love — thou art high —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
„The best curve on a woman's body is her smile. “
— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981
„Behind every smile there's teeth.“
— Confucius Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551 - -479 BC
— Laura Ingalls Wilder American children's writer, diarist, and journalist 1867 - 1957
Michael Landon, in Little House on the Prairie (TV series), Season 2, Ep 8 (5 November 1975) "Remember Me", Part 1
Misattributed
— Anne Brontë, book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XV : An Encounter and its Consequences; Gilbert Markham
„Nothing left to do but smile.“
— Jerry Garcia American musician and member of the Grateful Dead 1942 - 1995
Source: The Wisdom of Jerry Garcia
„She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, book Tender Is the Night
Source: Tender Is the Night
— Justin Bieber Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor 1994
Quoted in MTV Justin Bieber: "Girls Look Better Without Make-Up" http://www.mtv.co.uk/news/justin-bieber/202740-justin-bieber, April 2010
— William Blake English Romantic poet and artist 1757 - 1827
The Smile, st. 1
1800s, Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1805)
— Leo Tolstoy, book What Men Live By
Source: What Men Live By (1881), Ch. XI
Context: Then I remembered the first lesson God had set me: "Learn what dwells in man." And I understood that in man dwells Love! I was glad that God had already begun to show me what He had promised, and I smiled for the first time.
— Francis William Bourdillon British poet 1852 - 1921
" The Chantry Of The Cherubim http://www.bartleby.com/236/219.html" in The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (1917) by D. H. S. Nicholson.
Context: p>I walk as one unclothed of flesh,
I wash my spirit clean;
I see old miracles afresh,
And wonders yet unseen.
I will not leave Thee till Thou give
Some word whereby my soul may live!I listened — but no voice I heard;
I looked — no likeness saw;
Slowly the joy of flower and bird
Did like a tide withdraw;
And in the heaven a silent star
Smiled on me, infinitely far.</p
2005
— Kristin Cast, book Awakened
Source: Awakened
„Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.“
— Christina Rossetti English poet 1830 - 1894
Remember, l. 13-14.
Source: Pre-Raphaelite Poetry: An Anthology
„The moon like a flower
In heaven's high bower,
With silent delight,
Sits and smiles on the night.“
Night, st. 1
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
„Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.“
— Cassandra Clare, book Clockwork Angel
Source: Clockwork Angel
„That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.“
— Robert Walser, book Jakob von Gunten
Source: Jakob von Gunten
— Patrick Süskind German writer and screenwriter 1949
Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
— Kristin Hannah American writer 1960
Source: Night Road
„When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.“
— Philippa Gregory, book The Other Boleyn Girl
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl
„I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.“
— Jim Butcher, book Fool Moon
Source: Fool Moon
„A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.“
— Masashi Kishimoto, book Naruto
Source: Naruto, Vol. 01: The Tests of the Ninja
„What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.“
— Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963
— William Saroyan, The Time of Your Life
The Time of Your Life (1939)
Context: Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart. Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil. These, understand. Have no shame in being kindly and gentle, but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret. In the time of your life, live — so that in the wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.
Context: In the time of your life, live — so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart. Be the inferior of no man, nor of any man be the superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart. Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil. These, understand. Have no shame in being kindly and gentle, but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret. In the time of your life, live — so that in the wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.
— Gena Showalter American writer 1975
Source: Oh My Goth
„Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.“
— Susanna Kaysen, book Girl, Interrupted
Source: Girl, Interrupted
„Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.“
— Jean Paul Sartre French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary cri… 1905 - 1980
„The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling.“
— Hiro Mashima Japanese manga artist 1977
— Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
„Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.“
— Thich Nhat Hanh Religious leader and peace activist 1926
— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones
Clary and Jace, pg. 98
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
„They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, book The Love of the Last Tycoon
Source: The Last Tycoon
„Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.“
— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991
— Roberto Clemente Puerto Rican baseball player 1934 - 1972
As quoted in "Clemente Says He is Very Happy" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=42oeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QckEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1983%2C4221206 by the Associated Press, in The Daytona Beach Morning Journal (October 16, 1971), p. 1-C
Other, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1971</big>
— Jun Hong Lu Australian Buddhist leader 1959
Malaysia, (28 August 2017)[citation needed].