A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, Overflows, and bubbles all around.
A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, Overflows, and bubbles all around.
I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer.
Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
All nature wears one universal grin.
I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
He passed a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility And he owned with a grin That his favourite sin Is pride that apes humility.
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
Yet these, who cling to life with stubborn hands,
Can grin through storms of death and find a gap
In the clawed, cruel tangles of his defence.
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.
Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
A sense of relationship and copartnership with God involves the concept of universal brotherhood and that will help to develop intelligent tolerance, open-mindedness, and good-natured optimism. Life is really a battle between fear and faith, pessimism and optimism. Fear and pessimism paralyze men with skepticism and futility. One must have a sense of humor to be an optimist in times like these. And you young women will need a sense of humor if you marry these young men and try to live with them. Golden Kimball once said in a conference, 'The Lord Himself must like a joke or he wouldn't have made some of you people.' But your good humor must be real, not simulated. Let your smiles come from the heart and they will become contagious. You may see men on the street any day whose laugh is only a frozen grin with nothing in it but teeth. Men without humor tend to forget their source, lose sight of their goal, and with no lubrication in their mental crankshafts, they must drop out of the race. Lincoln said, 'Good humor is the oxygen of the soul.' And someone paraphrased, 'The surly bird catches the germ.'
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories