Quotes About Simplicity

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.

I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

I love living my life in flip-flops. I met a guy in the islands a while ago who told me he hadn't worn a pair of shoes in three years! I thought, 'Man, that's the life!'

Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.

I'm done with men. I have a hamster. That's all I need.

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

After all, things are what they are. A message is a message, plates are plates, men are men, and life is life.

May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find happiness with a checkbook.

Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

That absolute pure honesty of the horse, man that's just the greatest thing there is

I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That's all I've ever used in my paintings.

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.