quotes on smile and laughter
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a Lesbian. ~Fran Lebowitz
Night has become painful for me. It brings to light the regrets of the day. ~Grey Livingston
Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now! ~Alice Childress
God is the perfect poet. ~Robert Browning
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. ~Louis Celine, Voyage au bout du monde, 1932
Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad. ~Author Unknown
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, 1870
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panti-girdle, crinoline, camisole, bustle, brassiere, stomacher, chemise, virgin zone, spike heels, nose ring, veil, kid gloves, fishnet stockings, fichu, bandeau, Merry Widow, weepers, chokers, barrettes, bangles, beads, lorgnette, feather boa, basic black, compact, Lycra stretch one-piece with modesty panel, designer peignoir, flannel nightie, lace teddy, bed, head. ~Margaret Atwood
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. ~G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"
Anything simple always interests me. ~David Hockney
A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores. ~M*A*S*H, Klinger, "Bug-Out," 1976
We are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civilization begins with soap. ~Galveston Times, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren
Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something. ~Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1890
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ~Samuel Johnson
