Frowning Quotes

• 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

  Believe, Thinking, Dams

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• The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
  Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Clouds, Light

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1851). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare...: embracing a life of the poet, and notes, original and selected...”, p.175

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• O yellow eye,
  let me be sick with your heat,
  let me be feverish and frowning.

  Anne Sexton

  Eye, Sunshine, Yellow

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• LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Opportunity, Lasts, Makers

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.

  James M. Beggs

  Life, Smile, Laughter

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• Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

  Janet Lane-Claypon

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Happiness, Smile

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• We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

  Albert C. Barnes

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Dark

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• Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing.

  Richard Branson

  Praise, More Time, Criticize

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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 are hopeless and defeated. A smile is so valuable that it can't be bought, begged, borrowed, or taken away against your will. You have to be willing to give a smile away before it can do anyone else any good. So if someone is too tired or grumpy to flash you a smile, let him have one of yours anyway. Nobody needs a smile as much as the person who has none to give.

  Dale Carnegie

  Hope, Taken, Tired

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• A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Happiness, Smile

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• Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

  W. C. Fields

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.

  Milton A. Lee

  Smile, Determination, Laughter

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• smile, It increases your face value

  Robert Harling

  Inspirational, Smile, Keep Smiling

  Robert Harling (1988). “Steel Magnolias”, p.42, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

  Denis Waitley

  Love, Happiness, Smile

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• The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

  William Shakespeare

  Smile, Encouraging, Broken Heart

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. 208

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• Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you've been up to.

  Satchel Paige

  Inspirational, Motivational, Smile

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• When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

  Robert Southwell

  Smile, Thinking, Fortune

  Saint Robert Southwell (1856). “The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell”, p.59

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• A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

  Washington Irving

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  Washington Irving (2015). “Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter how grouchy you're feeling,
  You'll find the smile more or less healing.
  It grows in a wreath
  All around the front teeth -
  Thus preserving the face from congealing.

  Anthony Euwer

  Smile, Laughter, Healing

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• Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Family, Smile

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• Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Liberty, Bosoms, Reliance

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.128, Fordham Univ Press

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• Commend while others are criticizing, persist while others are quitting

  William Arthur Ward

  Quitting, Criticize, Persist

  William Arthur Ward, “Believe while others”

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• You're never fully dressed without a smile.

  Martin Charnin

  Happiness, Smile, Fashion

  Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin (1977). “Annie: Libretto/vocal Book”

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