Quotes About Simplicity

Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora [It is futile to do with more things that which can be done with fewer]

et tamen nihil est sciens vel quiescens, nisi actualiter sit sciens vel quiescens.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

Plurality should not be assumed without necessity

The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

I want time in which to walk quietly over the earth, among uncrazed men. I want time in which to build a house, inhabit it, create a past with meaning. I want time in which to seek and find love. I want time. I want to be unhurried, uncaught. I want time in which to sleep and waken, in which to dream the truth of my being on earth. Time.

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

More matter with less art.

O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady: If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need- You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!

The blessedness of being little!!!

My lord, will you be true? Who, I? Alas, it is my vice, my fault: Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion, I with great truth catch mere simplicity; Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns, With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare. Fear not my truth: the moral of my wit Is plain and true; there's all the reach of it.

I had rather live With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, Than feed on cates and have him talk to me In any summerhouse in Christendom.

I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow, By his best arrow, with the golden head, By the simplicity of Venus' doves, By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves, And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen, When the false Trojan under sail was seen,— By all the vows that ever men have broke, In number more than ever women spoke,—

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.

For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it.

Maybe that's the key to happiness—being sort of dumb, not wanting to know any of the answers.

The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.

You are what you are, I am what I am. It's just as simple as that.

Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope

Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.

Non complicate le cose, ci saranno già le cose a complicarsi da sole.

And gentlefolk never laugh at simplicity; they only laugh at pretence.

life holds only two or three things worth the having, and if you possess them the rest don't matter, and if you do not possess them the rest are useless.