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

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit...

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit...

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says,...

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says,...

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about...

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about...

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind,...

Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind,...

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

And silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound

And silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom...

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom...

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell...

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell...

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

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

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