Quotes About Simplicity

My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.

Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.

Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price - only value.

I get up in the morning, have a job to do, go there, come home, be with the family, that's it.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

By no means do I try to go out and hang out with famous people.

If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

It's all short, sweet and simple, but it's all a moment's worth.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches." by Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

The fathers greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?

Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.

When one sleeps on the floor, one need not fear falling out of bed.

Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.

This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain.