Quotes About Simplicity

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.

In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

Give me a look, give me a face,That makes simplicity a grace;Robes loosely flowing, hair as free,Such sweet neglect more taketh meThan all the adulteries of art:They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

The less you know, the more soundly you sleep.

Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement.

There was a refreshing purity to their views, which seemed often unaffected by real-world complexities. The

No pienses todavía en esas cosas de remontarte mucho, que eres más pelado que un huevo—le dijo ella—

Dime que te gustará esta vida oscura y deliciosa; que amarás esta paz campestre; que aquí te curarás de las locas efervescencias que tuban tu espíritu, y que anhelas ser una feliz y robusta villana, ricachona en medio de la sencillez y la abundancia, teniendo por maridillo al más chiflado de los artistas, al más espiritual habitante de esta tierra de luz, fecundidad y poesía.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Buonarroti was later given the job of designing the huge dome of the new Basilica of St. Peter. It is well known how much he loved the simplicity and perfection of ancient Roman architecture. His favorite building of all was the Pantheon, the central shrine to the Greek and Roman idols, built by Hadrian in the first half of the second century.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

A little house well filled, a little field well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.

The best of all medicines are rest and fasting.

Eat to live, and not live to eat.

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

School and other education constantly proceed upon false principles, and show a clumsy apparatus pointed at a false mark; but your apparatus is simple, and the mark a true one;

Our supper was only half an anchovy each, on a very little strip of bread and butter, and half a pint of ale between us; but the entertainment was in her conversation.

Through the mercies of the Almighty, I had, in a good degree, learned to be content with a plain way of living.

138. Elegancy, is a good Meen and Address given to Matter, be it by proper or figurative Speech: Where the Words are apt, and allusions very natural, Certainly it has a moving Grace: But it is too artificial for Simplicity, and oftentimes for Truth. The Danger is, lest it delude the Weak, who in such Cases may mistake the Handmaid for the Mistress, if not Error for Truth.

From my example, a great part of them left their muddling breakfast of beer, and bread, and cheese, finding they could with me be supplied from a neighboring house with a large porringer of hot water-gruel, sprinkled with pepper, crumbed with bread, and a bit of butter in it, for the price of a pint of beer, viz., three half-pence. This was a more comfortable as well as cheaper breakfast, and keep their heads clearer.

Buy what thou has no need of and ere long thou shall sell thy necessaries.