Plain Quotes

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Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain. — Thomas Otway
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion. — Joseph Addison
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. — Barbara Tuchman
I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked… — Laurie Colwin
For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough. — M.F.K. Fisher
Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often… — John Tillotson
Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief. — William Shakespeare
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward. — William Wilberforce
Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine… — Ellen Goodman
To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen. — Quintus Ennius
Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may… — Max Delbruck
Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain-there is nothing in the whole system if laws… — Arthur Eddington
Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind… — Michael Faraday
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I… — Mark Twain
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the… — Thomas Paine
Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written… — Abraham Lincoln
The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous... — Abraham Lincoln

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