Source: Thief of Time
“Things are not always what they seem.”
Non semper ea sunt quae videntur.
Book IV, fable 2, line 5.
Fables
“Things are seldom what they seem;
Skim milk masquerades as cream.”
H.M.S. Pinafore (1878)
“I learned have, not to despise,
What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.”
Visions of the Worlds Vanitie (1591), line 69
Act II, sc. iii
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
“We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.”
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. XXII : Grand Master Architect, p. 190
Speech, March 26, 1966, Washington, D.C., quoted in Robert Andrews, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993)
“All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.”
Source: I Am the Messenger
Observations on the Trade with North america, Chart V, page 29.
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