Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
Regardless of weather, the moon shines the same; it is the drifting clouds that make it seem different on different nights.
The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
The best mirror is an old friend.
The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive — you are leaking.
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.
The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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.
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.
Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.
Things are seldom what they seem.
Think not I am what I appear.
To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
Trust not to much to appearances.
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