Quotes About Simplicity

I think if more people would understand how simple and what really feminism is, I would imagine that most men I know are feminists without verbalising or saying so.

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.

I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. We seldom play games--we aren't that sophisticated.

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.

One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.

Most girls are attracted to the simple things in life. Like men.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

When in the body of a donkey, enjoy the taste of grass.