Cervantes
“All that glisters is not gold.”
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Aeschylus
“Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.”
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Henry Fielding
“Handsome is that handsome does.”
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Ovid
“First appearance deceives many.”
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Aesop
“Appearances are often deceiving.”
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Thomas Fuller
“Good clothes open all doors.”
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Martin Amis
“Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.”
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Aesop
“Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.”
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Author Unknown
“A fly in the soup ruins the whole bowl.”
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1 Thessalonians 5:22
“Abstain from all appearance of evil.”
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Euripides
“Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.”
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John 7:24
“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”
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Edna W. Chase
“Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.”
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Don Herold
“The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.”
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Phaedrus
“Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.”
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Aesop
“We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.”
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Jean Cocteau
“Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.”
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Meryl Streep
“Expensive clothes are a waste of money.”
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Thomas Fuller
“Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.”
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Jill Clayburgh
“Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are.”
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Beau Brummel
“If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.”
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Henry Jacobsen
“The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.”
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Freire Denise Cordelier
“Everything is not gold that one sees shining.”
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William S. Gilbert
“Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.”
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Christopher Lasch
“Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.”
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Lee Mildon
“People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.”
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Janet Lane
“Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.”
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Gabrielle Chanel
“Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.”
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Quentin Crisp
“Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.”
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Lord Chesterfield
“Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.”
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Samuel Butler
“Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.”
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
“Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other.”
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Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself”
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English Proverb
“Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.”
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La Fontaine
“Beware so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance”
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Abraham Lincoln
“Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.”
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Euripides
“People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.”
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Author Unknown
“How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.”
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Charles Spurgeon
“No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”
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Mignon McLaughlin
“Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.”
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Maurice Chevalier
“Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.”
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Niccolo Machiavelli
“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.”
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Daniel Webster
“The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.”
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Baltasar Gracian
“Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.”
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Rutherford B. Hayes
“In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.”
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Author Unknown
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.”
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Dame Edith Sitwell
“Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?”
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Abraham Lincoln
“If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg”
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Author Unknown
“Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden...”
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Niccolo Machiavelli
“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration”
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Collin Powell
“Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.”
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Daniel Webster
“The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.”
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Henry David Thoreau
“It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.”
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Oliver Goldsmith
“A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.”
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George Foreman
“It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.”
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Niccolo Machiavelli
“For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are”
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Matthew 23:27
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead [men's] bones, and of all uncleanness.”
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Leo Tolstoy
“I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.”
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1 Samuel 16:7
“But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.”
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