Plainest Quotes

31 quotes by 29 authors

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. — Wendell Berry
It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt… — Alexander Hamilton
I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work.… — Edward Weston
Of all the lessons history teaches, this one is the plainest: the person who tries to achieve ends through force is always unscrupulous and is… — Eustace Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle
The light of friendship is like light of phosphorus, seen plainest when all around is dark. — Isaiah Crowell
Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the… — William Jennings Bryan
Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure… — H. L. Mencken
It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last. — Elbert Hubbard
Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to… — H. L. Mencken
The civilization of a country consists in the quality of life that is lived there, and this quality shows plainest in the things that people… — Albert J. Nock
When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it. — Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon
Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies. — Glen Hirshberg
The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses. — Ovid
...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest. — Laurence Sterne
... truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
And, to prevent mistakes, I must advertize you, that I now mean by elements, as those chymists that speak plainest do by their principles, certain… — Robert Boyle
We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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