Quotes About Simplicity

A man of limited desire will always have less or perhaps nothing to worry and sensibly no fear of losing anything or everything in life.

A man's simplicity is the beauty of his humanity in life.

Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.

All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.

For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.

Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?

He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to.

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

My aesthetic is about simplicity, elegance, and comfort, whether that is interpreted in a man's suit or a track suit.

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

The things that are really important to me are my man, my animals and my books. I don't need anything else.

It?s not me to sleep with loads of men, but I do believe in having different experiences. At the end of the day, the nicest thing is the old-fashioned one-on-one.

Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.

so few in reality are the true necessities of man