Quotes About Simplicity

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

The best way to bring up some children is short.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Poverty - one thing money can't buy.

It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.

Dine on little, and sup on less.

Kiss principle: Keep it simple, stupid.

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

'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free. 'Tis a gift to come round to where we ought to be. And when we find a place that feels just right, We will be in the valley of love and delight.

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions, intellectu-alism and much more, only to begin to find ... that truth is basically simple-and feels good, clean and right.

Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

To be simple is to be great.

Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

Eat when you're hungry. Drink when you're thirsty. Sleep when you're tired.

The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them. On the one side, we overintel-lectualize everything; on the other hand, we are over-mechanized. We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb, but the danger of our misunderstanding the meaning of life is much more serious.