#guise

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. ↗

— Horace Mann

#bound #call #disguises #evil #good

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#comfort #disguised #fist #flocks #his

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#guises #long #long time #many #notice

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. ↗

— V. S. Pritchett

#disguises #insincere #period #personalities #sincerely

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work. ↗

— Herbert Prochnow

#comes #disguised #hard #hard work #opportunity

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life. ↗

— Herbert Read

#adult life #burying #clearly #difficult #disguised

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#brian #comic #disguise #nbc #standup

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#certain #change #dark #disguise #dress

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#art #disguise #mirth #most #seen

I like the way black looks. I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. The black is sort of the bad-guy guise, so I work overtime to make people comfortable. ↗

— Joan Jett

#better #black #clothes #comfortable #darker