Quotes About Simplicity

My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie.

I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.

To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can carry it without overstrain, is really a fine art.

Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.

I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful.

Make [food] simple and let things taste of what they are.

Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.

I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.

I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.

The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.

I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food that makes you and your world ill.

Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.

Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.

All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.

Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.