Smiling Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old smiling quotes, smiling sayings, and smiling proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

When you're smiling, when you're smiling, the whole world smiles with you. / When you're laughing, when you're laughing, the sun comes shining through, / but when you're crying you bring on the rain. / So stop your sighing, be happy again. / Keep on smiling, cause when you're smiling, / the whole world smiles with you. Joe Goodwin
When Irish eyes are smiling, / Sure, 'tis like the morn in spring / In the lilt of Irish laughter / You can hear the angels sing. Chauncey Olcott
A smiling face often hides an aching heart; I promise you mine did in that coat, and not my heart only, but other regions. There is a skeleton in every house. William Makepeace Thackeray
A person without a smiling face should not open a shop. Chinese Proverb
There were the faces with the brave smiles and the ones who had given up smiling. There were the feelings of hopeful denial and the feelings of despair. Terry Fox
A weeping man and a smiling woman are not to be trusted. Indian Proverb
Behind a frowning providence / He hides a smiling face. William Cowper
She looked, with her red cherry cheeks and wide semi-circle of smile, like something that might have briskly swung out of a weather-house predicting sunshine. Peter Kemp
Slept almost smiling, as if she had a secret. William McIlvanney
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy—the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born babe, and assures it of a mother's love. Haliburton
Smiles from reason flow, to brute denied, and are of love the food. Milton
Those happiest smiles that played on her ripe lips seemed not to know what guests were in her eyes, which parted thence as pearls from diamonds dropped. Shakespeare
Something of a person's character may be discovered by observing how he smiles. Bovee
Some people never smile; they only grin. Bovee.
A man of party and fashion, therefore, is only seen to smile but never heard to laugh. Chesterfield
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight 'that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.' H.W. Beecher
A disagreeable smile distorts the lines of beauty and is more repulsive than a frown. Lavater
No matter how grouchy you're feeling, / You'll find the smile more or less healing. / It grows in a wreath / All around the front teeth—Thus preserving the face from congealing. Anthony Euwer
The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile. Mother Teresa
There are no language barriers when you are smiling. Allen Klein
When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them. Allen Funt
A smile appeared on her face as if she'd taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there. Loma Chandler
A laugh is a smile that bursts. Mary H. Waldrip
If I can make people smile, then I have served my purpose for God. Red Skeleton
All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile. Chris Hart
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich. Samuel Johnson
Laughter is regional; a smile extends over the whole face. Malcolm De Chazal
Smiling as if she had teeth of sugar that were always melting. Reiner Maria Rilke
Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other—it doesn't matter who it is—and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. Mother Teresa
You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart. Carole King