Appearance Vs Substance Quotes

A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.

I have a daughter, and it's a very bad message to send to my daughter that to be valid or accepted or to have value, you have to look a certain way. It's all about appearance, and not about education and not about contributing. I think we've completely lost our way.

What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

I was very invested in being smart and thought to be smart was more important than accomplishing anything in life.

Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up.

I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn.

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.

The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to the mind. The 'polish and pipeclay' school is not yet extinct, and it is easier for the mediocre intelligence to become an authority on buttons, than on tactics.

Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.

Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?