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

We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.
Eamon de Valera

Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,.
Joshua Sylvester

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

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.
Kathie Lee Gifford

Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.
Robert Walpole

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

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort.
John Olver

You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.
Richard McKenna