"Appearances often are deceiving." - Aesop, Fables

"To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big." - Aristotle

"Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not." - Elias Root Beadle

"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them." - Abraham Lincoln, attributed

"Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold." - ALAIN DE LILLE (ALANUS DE INSULIS), Parabolae

"It is not all gold that glareth." - CHAUCER, The House of Fame

"All, as they say, that glitters is not gold." - JOHN DRYDEN, The Hind and the Panther

"There is less in this than meets the eye." - TALLULAH BANKHEAD, quoted in Alexander Woollcott's Shouts and Murmurs (Said about a performance of a

"Judge not according to the appearance." - BIBLE, John 7:24

"Keep up appearances; there lies the test;
The world will give thee credit for the rest."
- CHARLES CHURCHILL, Night

"Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. . .
But we seem to have no other."
- IVY COMPTON-BURNETT, Manservant and Maidservant

"A fair exterior is a silent recommendation." - PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Maxims

"Things are entirely what they appear to be;
and behind them . . . there is nothing."
- JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, Nausea

"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." - OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"I may not have a perfect body but I have some excellent parts on it." - Unknown