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During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo. - Honore de Balzac There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text. - Patrick Buchanan The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct. - Calvin Coolidge Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein, in "Reader's Digest" magazine I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. - Albert Einstein I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple. - Albert Einstein Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein To be simple is to be great. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Literary Ethics To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain. - William Feather Generally nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool. - Thomas Fuller (1), The Holy and Profane States--Of Natural Fools--Maxim I Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art. - Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (l. 253) The greatest truths are the simplest: and so are the greatest men. - A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare, Guesses at Truth Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible. - Alan Kay I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus. - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. - Marcel Proust An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. - William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Queen Elizabeth at IV, iv) Plain and not honest is too harsh a style. - William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Queen Elizabeth at IV, iv) Don't confuse, don't convolute. - John C. Shepard As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out. - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens), Pudd'nhead Wilson (ch. 11) A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human. - Charles Wagner, Simple Life (ch. II) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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