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Handsome is that handsome does.
Handsome is that handsome does.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances
To be rather than to seem.
[Lat., Esse quam videri.]
To be rather than to seem.
[Lat., Esse quam videri.]
There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.
There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.
Hyt is not al golde that glareth.
Hyt is not al golde that glareth.
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like
unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, read more
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like
unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward,
but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750.
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750.