a smile is worth a thousand words

a smile is worth a thousand words

proverb The gesture of smiling can convey more to others than words alone can. I win people over because I know that a smile is worth a thousand words—and that some big speech will just bore them to sleep!
See also: smile, thousand, word, worth
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • put (something) into words
  • put into words
  • exchange no more than
  • exchange no more than (an amount of) words
  • in so many words
  • in so/as many words
  • have no words for
  • have no words for (someone or something)
  • too for words
  • too funny, sad, etc. for words