Plain Quotes

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Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces. — Bryant H. McGill
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher… — George McGovern
If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to… — Phil McGraw
As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have… — Jon Meacham
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be… — H. L. Mencken
No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me… — H. L. Mencken
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief,… — Christopher Morley
I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag in the same… — Denis O'Hare
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an… — William Osler
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style… — Camille Paglia
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath… — Jean Paul
Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong. — Nancy Pelosi
In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing' — Ross Perot
When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and… — Steven Pinker
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. — Ezra Pound
In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has… — J. B. Priestley
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray… — Samuel Richardson
C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around. — Dennis Ritchie
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away. — Christina Rossetti
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. — John Ruskin

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