(1622 quotes found)
“Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.”
Henry Fielding
“Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.”
George Santayana
“Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on - not for looking at”
Noel Coward
“No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
Thomas Paine
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as if it is, infinite”
William Blake
“I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances”
Confucius
“If you keep at it, one day something which at first appeared impossible will become merely something very difficult indeed.”
Danny Paradise
“Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Say as little as possible while appearing to be awake.”
Will Rogers