Plain Quotes

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Plain free-weight squats work better for me than anything. — Nasser El Sonbaty
In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word. — Michel de Montaigne
Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place… — Alexander MacLaren
The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living, and displays the… — William Howard Taft
A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never had the arse… — Terry Pratchett
Really the truth is just a plain picture. A plain picture of, let's say, a tramp vomiting in the sewere. You know, and next door… — Bob Dylan
To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain. — William Feather
A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit… — H. L. Mencken
In the event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence and which the Polish Government accordingly considered it vital to resist with their national… — Neville Chamberlain
If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass." — Thomas Merton
We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people,… — Annie Dillard
In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast… — Jerome K. Jerome
To win countrywide victory is only the first step in a long march of ten thousand li.... The Chinese revolution is great, but the road… — Mao Zedong
New things always have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow. It is sheer fantasy to imagine that the cause of socialism is all… — Mao Zedong
Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such… — Edward Burnett Tylor
The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain. — Alexander Pope
If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock,… — Olive Schreiner
It's easy .... it's a mind that is open to everything, yet attaches to nothing ... it's called freedom that's what it is, plain and… — Gary Busey
This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to… — William Strunk, Jr.
We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who… — Helmut Schoeck

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