Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Appear, Appearance

A grave and magestic outside is as it were the palace of the soul.Chinese.

A man is not always known by his looks, nor is the sea measured with a bushel.Chinese.

Always appear what you are and a little below it.Modern Greek.

Anxious about the shoe but disregarding the foot. (Careful about external appearance but regardless of the culture of the mind.)

Appearances are deceitful.German.

Be what you appear to be.Latin.

Be what you seem to be.

Do not always judge by appearances.La Fontaine.

There is no trusting to appearances.Latin.

What wretched shifts are they obliged to make use of who would support the appearance of a fortune they have not.Fielding.