Plain Quotes

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To lovers of the wild, these mountains are not a hundred miles away. Their spiritual power and the goodness of the sky make them near,… — John Muir
The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it… — Will Rogers
It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition. — Maria Mitchell
On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and that there are… — Theodore Roosevelt
When our Lord says, 'I have not spoken of Myself' (Jn. 12:49), and again, 'As the Father said to Me, so I speak' (Jn. 12:50),… — Saint Basil
When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. — Richard Steele
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys,… — William Osler
Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again. — Matthew Arnold
No power of earth, or hell, men or devils, can possibly stand against the word of God; and hence it is the very height of… — Charles Henry Mackintosh
People are stumbling over the simplest things. Take, for instance, that word believeth. You would think that was plain enough for anybody, but all my… — Henry Allen Ironside
It's as if the whole notion of growing soil is something only lunatics would think about. But why not grow soil? Does anything make more… — Joel Salatin
But the plain fact of the matter is that, for any person to successfully lead others, he or she must deal with reality and be… — Donald T. Phillips
I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple… — Jorge Luis Borges
The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well… — Don Herold
Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are… — Henry Anatole Grunwald
It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is. — Anthony Doerr
Thereâ€™s nothing wonderful or interesting about unrequited love. I think itâ€™s shitty, just plain shitty. To love someone who doesnâ€™t return your affections might be… — Steve Toltz
In the stock market (as in much of life), the beginning of wisdom is admitting your ignorance. One of the many things you cannot know… — James K. Glassman
Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use. — George Bernard Shaw

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