(1633 quotes found)
“Look! Don't be deceived by appearances -- men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!”
William Booth
“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”
Abraham Lincoln
“Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.”
Charlotte Bronte
“Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“If you keep at it, one day something which at first appeared impossible will become merely something very difficult indeed.”
Danny Paradise
“Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it”
William Hazlitt
“We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.”
Kalu Rinpoche
“Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.”
Colin Powell
“Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on - not for looking at”
Noel Coward
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite”
William Blake