Quotes About Simplicity

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

Conciseness is the sister of talent.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

I explained to him I had simple tastes and didn't want anything ostentatious, no matter what it costs.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men.

When one has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

Purity is obscurity.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

One cannot both feast and become rich.

'Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things.

It is wealth to be content.

"Plain English" - everybody loves it, demands it - from the other fellow.

Rule No. i is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is, it's all small stuff.

There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself- it is the occurring which is difficult.

There is but one art, to omit.

We like that a sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.

Ages 60+. — Picasso said to me the other day: "One starts to get young at the age of sixty — and then it's too late." Only then does one start to feel free; only then has one learned to strip oneself down to one's essential creative simplicity...

Before enlightenment — chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment — chop wood, carry water.

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

You can't fall off the floor.