quotes about smile

If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments. ~Art Buchwald, 1974



I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean's voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Foot-prints on the Sea-shore"



Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. ~John Updike



"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. ~Francois Mauriac



Democracy was getting old anyway. ~Author Unknown



The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~e.e. cummings



There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971



Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words. ~Ernie Harwell, "The Game for All America," 1955



You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower



Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. ~Marie Louise De La Ramee



No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb



It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



Business is a combination of war and sport. ~Andre Maurois



It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich



Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? ~Al Boliska



I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. ~Dolly Parton



I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons. ~Adlai Stevenson



It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism. ~Charles Osgood



Happiness is a form of courage. ~Holbrook Jackson



All great art comes from a sense of outrage. ~Glenn Close