Plain Quotes

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
Albert Einstein

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
Muhammad Ali

Wrong, Matter, Color

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Maya Angelou

Virtuous, Scarcity, Otherwise

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Nothing, Sense

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Her, She

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.
Steve Jobs

Experience, Job, Down

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
H. L. Mencken

Money, Great, Lost

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
Samuel Adams

Words, Meaning, Tools

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Katharine Hepburn

Women, Men, Beautiful

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
Katharine Hepburn

Love, Hard, Try

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. Mencken

Great, Heart, Last

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
George McGovern

Love, Patriotism, Deep

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Success, Great, Girl

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
Christopher Morley

Beauty, Pain, Lonely

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Karl Marx

Great, Simple, Present

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nothing, Normal, Monster

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
Bernard Malamud

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
Anton Chekhov

Forward, Cry, Direction

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
Harry S. Truman

Work, Time, Political

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
John Ruskin

Heart, Real, Person

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen

Life, Beauty, Girl

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Francis Bacon

Best, Rich, Virtue

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
Samuel Johnson

True, Two, Before

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
Twyla Tharp

Experience, Old, Optimism

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
William Wordsworth

Thinking, Living, High

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
John Mayer

School, End, High

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
Hedy Lamarr

Beautiful, Mother, Someone

All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
Paris Hilton

Pretty, Works, British

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.
Dennis Ritchie

Around, Growing, Bet

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Jean Paul

Great, Storm, Around

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