George Washington Quotes

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras, De juger des gens sur la mine. Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmith.

Dress does not give knowledge.

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

People are not what they seem to be according to their looks.

Brown shoes don't make it.

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.

You cannot judge a book by its contents.

How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you kissable, like feeling warm makes you coffee, like liking movies makes you a director. How utterly incorrect to think it any other way, a box of crap is treasures, a boy smiling means it, a gentle moment is a life improved.

You can put on as many airs as you want, but in the end, that dress is the same as you: an old, cheap design dressed up to look like its worth more than it is.

With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

A $50 haircut, cool glasses, skinny jeans and a tattoo does not a prophet make.

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

All that is gold does not glitter.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

There are so many things that can take over your life: money, alcohol, drugs - even fashion. People hand you things, and you start to believe life is easy. And it's not like that - you're not supposed to be the person you play in the movies.

Appearances are deceptive.