All Quotes
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.Hans Hofmann
The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life.John Macy
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes, 1939
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.Mark Russell
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.Norman Vincent Peale
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.Henry David Thoreau
Men are punished by their sins, not for them.Elbert Hubbard
But he who never sins can little boast
Compared to him who goes and sins no more.N. P. Willis
You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing.Boerhaave