Quotes about Simplicity

Together the old man and the boy sat on the grass and shared the heart of the watermelon. The nasty-sweet guts of the earth.

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.

Simple Bible statements, apt illustrations, and pertinent anecdotes, were the more common weapons that he used. The consequence was that his hearers always understood him. He never shot above their heads. Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

Kiss principle: Keep it simple, stupid.

A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.

'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free. 'Tis a gift to come round to where we ought to be. And when we find a place that feels just right, We will be in the valley of love and delight.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.