“Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.”
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“You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker
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 <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Context: Smile though your heart is aching<br>Smile even though its breaking<br>When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by<br>If you smile with your fear and sorrow<br>Smile and maybe tomorrow<br>You'll find that life is still worthwhile If you just<br>Light up your face with gladness<br>Hide every trace of sadness<br>Although a tear may be ever so near<br>That's the time you must keep on trying<br>Smile, what's the use of crying?<br>You'll find that life is still worthwhile.
“A sociable smile is nothing but teeth.”
Jack Kerouac book Desolation Angels
Sometimes misquoted as "A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth."
Desolation Angels (1965)
“Behind every smile there's teeth.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters
Source: Invisible Monsters
Ruslana Koršunova (1987–2008) fashion model
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“Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may;
With life so short 'twere wrong to lose a day.”
Dum licet, in rebus jucundis vive beatus;
Vive memor quam sis aevi brevis.
Book II, satire viii, line 96 (trans. Conington)
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
“Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may;
With life so short 'twere wrong to lose a day.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Dum licet, in rebus jucundis vive beatus;
Vive memor quam sis aevi brevis.
Book II, satire viii, line 96 (trans. Conington)
Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Satires