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Quotes About Fret

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
~ Oswald Chambers
Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I'll keep that in mind. I'll be of good cheer.
~ Robert Silverberg
And S. I. Hayakawa, multiplex stringman. I'd tell you not to fret but that would spoil your playing." Freddie cackled merrily at his pun, then pointed his plastic weapon at the gross musician who joined feebly in the
~ Richard A. Lupoff
But when their infants were fractious and quite beyond control, they would quiet them by telling how, if they didn't hush them and not fret them, the terrible grey Badger would up and get them. This was a base libel on Badger, who, though he cared little about Society, was rather fond of children; but it never failed to have its full effect.
~ Kenneth Grahame
oh i should worry and fretdeath and i will coquettethere s a dance in the old dame yettoujours gai toujours gai
~ Don Marquis
Glass's nature was to fret. He was intensely agitated by the pressure from bankers for a centralized scheme and worried that bankers had gotten to Wilson (a suspicion, of course, that was entirely correct).
~ Roger Lowenstein
Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.
~ Lewis Carroll
Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.
~ Anonymous
Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I'll keep that in mind. I'll be of good cheer.
~ Robert Silverberg
I stress a lot, sometimes.
~ David Ortiz
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forgetWhat thou among the leaves hast never known,The weariness, the fever, and the fretHere, where men sit and hear each other groan;Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,Where youth grows pale, and specter-thin, and dies;Where but to think is to be full of sorrowAnd leaden-eyed despairs.
~ John Keats
O fret not after knowledge -- I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge -- I have none, and yet the Evening listens.
~ John Keats
It's a very bad idea to leave a woman alone with only 'er thoughts for company. Women stew and fret and make mountains out o' molehills until what we think was a little make turns into a killing offense.
~ Sally MacKenzie
From somewhere–most certainly not from his mother–he had inherited a feeling that Sunday was a day of rest, and so he fretted through it, and always came to the end of it with a sense of wide ennui and wasted time.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
I fret for Sylvia. She appears anchored to the idea of sinking, which is silly when she so clearly soars above almost everyone.
~ Stephanie Hemphill
Free-trade enthusiasts fret that regional trade arrangements divert more trade than they create.
~ Zanny Minton Beddoes
I'm always on the worrying side.
~ Toto Wolff
Once you start worrying, it's hard to stop.
~ Alexandra Petri
Women are used to worrying over trifles.
~ Susan Glaspell
I don't believe in doing one thing after another. I am a bit lazy, laid back, and a happy-go-lucky person. I don't fret too much. I enjoy living in the moment. If I have too much, then I get confused and distressed.
~ Mouni Roy
The trouble is that I have grown accustomed to worrying about you.
~ Mary Balogh
It iz the little bits ov things that fret and worry us; we kan dodge an elefunt but we kan't a fli.
~ Josh Billings
He was a real mean one … below the belt … you ain't called on to teach folks like that … them ain't Maycomb's ways, Miss Caroline, not really … now don't you fret, ma'am.
~ Harper Lee
Love is hurt with jar and fret; Love is made a vague regret.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson