There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Topics: Smile Quotes, Smiling Quotes

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;...

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;...

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I...

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I...

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one,...

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one,...

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think...

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think...

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown...

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown...

A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original...

A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original...

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by...

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by...

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it...

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it...

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the...

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the...

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Don't be consistent but be simple true.

Don't be consistent but be simple true.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...

Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants...

Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants...

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to...

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to...

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.