Quotes About Simplicity

If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.

La mejor explicación para cualquier fenómeno —dijo Karras, pasando por alto la observación— es siempre la más sencilla que se presente y que incluya todos los hechos.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?

Our basest beggarsAre in the poorest thing superfluous:Allow not nature more than nature needs,Man's life is cheap as beast's.

Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on 's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! Come; unbutton here.

I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts:I am no orator, as Brutus is;But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man.

Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.

He wants the natural touch.

He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose.

And simple truth miscall'd simplicity,And captive good attending captain ill.

The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.

An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.

If you are minimal, then even a small gesture becomes a big deal.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

There's an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain but inobvious [SIC] word that will do the work of five, the agony of untangling a complex idea that has become a mess of phrases in the writer's mind, the willingness to keep doing it over and over again until it is right--all of that plus some luck yields prose so clear that it seems a child could have written it.

A Fourth Turning brings new interest in the rational and classical, in simplicity, restraint, and decorum—while gender-related fashions begin to reformalize and return to elegance.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Plain living and high thinking are no more:The homely beauty of the good old causeIs gone; our peace, our fearful innocence,And pure religion breathing household laws.

Enough of science and art, Close up these barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart Thst watches and receives.

Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.

The world is too much with us.