Smile Quotes

"If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane."

Robert Frost

"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God."

Karl Barth

"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs – jolted by every pebble in the road."

Henry Ward Beecher

"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight."

Leo Rosten

"When we were born, the world smiled and we cried; live such a life that when you go, you smile and the world weeps."

Kabir

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

Jane Austen

"Life is too important to be taken seriously."

"I always advise people never to give advice."

P. G. Wodehouse

"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."

James Thurber

"We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can."

"A clown is like an aspirin, only he works twice as fast."

"I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful."

Bob Hope

"When humor goes, there goes civilization."

Erma Bombeck

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."

"Comedy is tragedy plus time."

Carol Burnett

"I'm happy that I have brought laughter, because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives in so many ways."

Lucille Ball

"From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere."

Dr. Seuss

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."

Dr. Seuss

"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?"

L. M. Montgomery

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

Anne Frank

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."

Kurt Vonnegut

"A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a."

"The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion."

William Makepeace Thackeray