Timeless Quotes Part-3

ANSWERING
When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?" Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

ANXIETY
Do not . . . hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind. - Samuel Johnson

APPEARANCE
Keep up appearances; The world will give the credit for the rest. - Charles Churchill

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
- La Fontaine
Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance. - English proverb

APPRAISAL
It's no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. - Virginia Woolf

Let us take men as they are, not as they ought to be. - Franz Schubert

If you want to judge a man, take a look at his enemies. - Harry Golden

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I rarely change it. - Margaret Thatcher

ARGUMENT
Audi partem alterum.[Hear the other side] - Saint Augustine

ASKING/SEEKING
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. - Chinese proverb

Ask, and it shall be given you;
Seek, and ye shall find;
Knock, and it shall be opened unto you;
For every one that asketh receiveth;
And he that seeketh findeth;
And to him that knocketh it shall be opened. - Jesus of Nazareth