Plain Quotes

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Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain. — Seneca the Younger
Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain… — George Eliot
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as… — Alexander Pope
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. — Oliver Goldsmith
A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will… — Seneca the Younger
Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and… — George Washington
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going… — John Prine
The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain… — Thomas Jefferson
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and… — Mary McCarthy
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:… — Thomas Paine
The President to-night has a dream:He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment… — Abraham Lincoln
We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American people. But we can hope that… — John F. Kennedy
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. — Oscar Wilde
The thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable. — Naoki Higashida
I don't have many heroes. Very plain and simply, Johnny Unitas was one of my heroes. When you think of Baltimore, you think of Johnny… — Ozzie Newsome
Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty. — Jake Gyllenhaal
In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot… — Bebe Neuwirth
Rock 'n' roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written, for the most part, by cretinous goons. And, by means of its… — Frank Sinatra
Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just… — Michelle Trachtenberg
I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera. — Joanne Froggatt

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