Frowning Quotes
73 quotes by 68 authors
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Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.
— Jacques Maritain
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A smile is nature's best antidote for discouragement. It brings rest to the weary, sunshine to those who are frowning, and hope to those who…
— Dale Carnegie
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Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great self-assurance that they…
— Donald E. Westlake
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'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath…
— James Russell Lowell
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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
— Patricia Cornwell
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A Winner's Blueprint for Achievement BELIEVE while others are doubting. PLAN while others are playing. STUDY while others are sleeping. DECIDE while others are delaying.…
— William Arthur Ward
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I always get ‘What’s wrong?’ or ‘Lighten up.’ Half the time, when guys tell me to smile, I’m not even frowning, I’m thinking! Then I’m…
— Kathleen Hanna
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I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with…
— Liu Xiaobo
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
— Michel de Montaigne
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable…
— William Cowper
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If in God's loving plan you have to bow before what appears to be a frowning providence, you can be sure that He's got your…
— Elyse Fitzpatrick
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What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our navy. ... Our…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
— William Cowper
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Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing.
— Richard Branson
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Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.
— Hafez
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The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny…
— Edgar Friedenberg
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If good people would make their goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many would they win to the good cause.
— James Ussher
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The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it…
— Dave Barry
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A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.
— Stevie Wonder
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The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall.
— Jimi Hendrix
Who Wrote These Frowning Quotes
68 authors contributed a total of 73 Frowning Quotes, led by these top contributors: