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To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) British author.
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author.
I’m not a dictator. It’s just that I have a grumpy face.
General Pinochet (b.1915) President of Chile.
Straight trees have crooked roots.
16th Century Proverb.
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the façade of his appearance.
Iris Murdoch (b.1919) Anglo-Irish writer.
He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) American writer.
She got her good looks from her father – he’s a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977) American comic actor.
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
Seneca.
Do not judge from mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
E.H.Chapin.
Foolish men mistake transitory semblances for eternal fact, and go astray more and more.
Carlyle.
Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
E.R.Beadle.
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
Southey.
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
Bruyere.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
La Fontaine.
The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster.
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be.
Socrates.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) British author.
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author.
I’m not a dictator. It’s just that I have a grumpy face.
General Pinochet (b.1915) President of Chile.
Straight trees have crooked roots.
16th Century Proverb.
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the façade of his appearance.
Iris Murdoch (b.1919) Anglo-Irish writer.
He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) American writer.
She got her good looks from her father – he’s a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977) American comic actor.
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
Seneca.
Do not judge from mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
E.H.Chapin.
Foolish men mistake transitory semblances for eternal fact, and go astray more and more.
Carlyle.
Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
E.R.Beadle.
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
Southey.
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
Bruyere.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
La Fontaine.
The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster.
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be.
Socrates.
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