We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.

In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.