Quotes About Simplicity

I'm a low-tech man in a high-tech world.

Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.

The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.

In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.

Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.

Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.

And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.