Plain Quotes

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Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain — Seneca the Younger
From the state of the Uncarved Block comes the ability to enjoy the simple and the quiet, the natural and the plain. Along with that… — Benjamin Hoff
Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold… — George Crabbe
Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a… — Epictetus
Unrequited loveâ€“plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasingâ€“turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited… — Elizabeth McCracken
Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools. — Athol Fugard
Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little… — Joseph Sobran
The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life. — Lane Kirkland
Somehow it must be made plain that the lawyer's moral judgment is not for hire, that there are occasions when the lawyer . . .… — Harry Jones
The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march, the long march. Ten thousand waters and a thousand mountains are… — Mao Zedong
A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or… — William Cowper
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go… — Bill Hybels
You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to… — Bear Bryant
There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work — Andre Agassi
There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances… — John Stuart Mill
The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would… — George P. Rowell
Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it. — Mark Twain
Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work. — Benjamin Hoff
And the dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face... and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace. Then… — Michael Jackson

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