By outward show let's not be cheated;
An ass should like an ass be treated.

By outward show let's not be cheated;
An ass should like an ass be treated.

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.

Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and read more

Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.

A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in read more

A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant read more

Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.

Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.

Thy neck is a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in
Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: read more

Thy neck is a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in
Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower
Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.