Quotes About Simplicity

Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made.

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.

The worst is when men try too hard, because it's not very masculine. Your outfit has to look like 'Oh, I just grabbed that.' Not too calculated. Jeans, a t-shirt: the simpler the better.

Jesus Christ was a simple man walked around, did a few miracles, said a few things and died. It was enough for him to say what he felt and glow with the light of eternity.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.

The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere

Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.

A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

You make me feel like a natural man

Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.

The way is light and fluid for the man with no preferences.

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

A man's wealth can...also be measured by what he doesn't have and doesn't want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.