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

Satchel Paige

Inspirational, Motivational, Smile

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Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting
Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills along,
Oft ends the day of your shifting brilliant laughter
Chill as a dull face frowning on a song.
Ay, but shows the South-west a ripple-feathered bosom
Blown to silver while the clouds are shaken and ascend
Scaling the mid-heavens as they stream, there comes a sunset
Rich, deep like love in beauty without end.

George Meredith

Song, Laughter, Sunset

George Meredith, George Macaulay Trevelyan (1912). “The poetical works of George Meredith: with some notes”

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She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

Raymond Chandler

Smile, Laughter, Laughing

Farewell, My Lovely ch. 18 (1940)

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All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.

Chris Hart

Smile, Laughter, Optimistic

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

John Ray

Smile, Beauty, Flirty

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Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Teresa

Love, Happiness, Smile

Mother Teresa (1993). “The Best Gift is Love: Meditations”, Servant Books

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Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

Inspirational, Funny, Life

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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Everyone smiles in the same language.

George Carlin

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

Leo Buscaglia

Smile, Appreciation, Kindness

"Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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