Quotes About Simplicity

The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.

I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

I am just a plain, common man.

I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials.

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

In an honest man there is always something of a child.

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.

True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.

Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew.

How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

A man's style should be like his dress. It should be as unobtrusive and should attract as little attention as possible.

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick