Quotes about Simplicity

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

Kiss principle: Keep it simple, stupid.

A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.

'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free. 'Tis a gift to come round to where we ought to be. And when we find a place that feels just right, We will be in the valley of love and delight.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

We like that a sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

a rival line, on his small beginnings out at the dam. Even his tools should be of wood and leather and gut, materials the insects would eat when one day he no longer needed them.