Frowning Quotes

73 Frowning quotes by 66 unique authors

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
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
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
'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
Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension. — Patricia Cornwell
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
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
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
Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad. — Michel de Montaigne
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
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
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
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. — William Cowper
Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing. — Richard Branson
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
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
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
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
A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are. — Stevie Wonder
The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall. — Jimi Hendrix
How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,… — William Shakespeare
LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns. — Ambrose Bierce
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. — George MacDonald
His forehead was covered by wrinkles brought on by a lot of sun and too much frowning. — Megan Whalen Turner
Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and… — Susanna Clarke

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