Quotes About Simplicity

It never ceased to amaze Skirata how much simpler it was to buy and sell death than it was to pay taxes.

One Is Never Over-Dressed OR Understand With A Little Black Dress By Karl Lagerfeld

Knowledge is annoying

I think I would rather just live my life," Teddy said, "not make an artifice of it.

She was tremendously fond of Ralph. Not hounded by love the way some women were. With Crighton she had been teased endlessly by the idea of it, but with Ralph it was more straightforward. Again not love, more like the feelings you would have for a favorite dog (and, no, she would never have said such a thing to him. Some people, a lot of people, didn't understand how attached one could be to a dog.)

She'd had a glimpse of a possible future-the pretty cottage, the garden full of flowers and vegetables, bread in the oven, a bowl of strawberries on the table, the happy baby hitched on her hip while she threw corn to the chickens. It would be like a Hardy novel before it all goes wrong.

We could buy a sewing machine and share it," Charlene said. "We could buy cloth and spools of thread and paper patterns and spend pleasant winter evenings dressmaking together. Perhaps by the soft light from beautiful glass oil lamps. We could sit in a pool of golden light from the beautiful glass oil lamps and our silver needles would glimmer and flash as we bowed our heads to the simple yet honest work." But

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man, Fishing alone in the cold river snow.

A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

Great men, like nature, use simple language.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.