Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities. Votes: 3
Mark TwainPlain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them. Votes: 3
Kin HubbardNow, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars. Votes: 3
Dr. SeussMost plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. Votes: 1
Maya AngelouFlying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. Votes: 1
Amelia EarhartA great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. Votes: 1
F. Scott FitzgeraldWhere's the line between professional girlfriend, and just plain professional? Votes: 0
Sarah Jessica ParkerNever forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple. Votes: 0
Barry RitholtzOne of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonStupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity. Votes: 0
Lewis BlackMy people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain. Votes: 0
Chief SeattleMy function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain. Votes: 0
Laura RidingA theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant. Votes: 0
Lillian HellmanThy plain and open nature sees mankind But in appearance, not what they are. Votes: 0
James Anthony FroudeOur government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English. Votes: 0
Alan SiegelWhere was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense? Votes: 0
Richard RussoI would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence. Votes: 0
Ben JonsonIt is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government. Votes: 0
Margaret ThatcherAn agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. Votes: 0
Jane AustenThe right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable. Votes: 0
Sophia LorenThe dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeManners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. Votes: 0
Evelyn WaughAnd at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart. Votes: 0
Jacques Roumain"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads." Votes: 0
Thomas PaineTrust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self. Votes: 0
Heather SellersI'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself. Votes: 0
Lucy Maud MontgomeryDoing something stupid once is just plain stupid. Doing something stupid twice is a philosophy. Votes: 0
Dan O'NeillI've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing. Votes: 0
Hank AzariaWithin the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity. Votes: 0
Max Weber[It] is no longer a matter of taste or opinion...it is plain experimental evidence. Votes: 0
Jerome LejeuneThe thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable. Votes: 0
Naoki HigashidaCertainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at. Votes: 0
Larry McMurtryIf you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Votes: 0
Anton ChekhovWhen I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe. Votes: 0
Kathie Lee GiffordIn such uncommon longings, hidden in plain sight in our lives, does God call us. Votes: 0
James MartinMy works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciTo be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillThe main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things. Votes: 0
Alistair BeggMore people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure. Votes: 0
Roy L. SmithEvery leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain. Votes: 0
James HerveyOh rocks!' says Molly Bloom, drumming her fingers in impatience. 'Tell us in plain words." Votes: 0
James JoyceIt's plain that a fence is of no consequence, If the ambulance works in the valley. Votes: 0
Joseph MalinsThere's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks. Votes: 0
Mabel SeeleyThe bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. Votes: 0
Douglas AdamsMystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain! Votes: 0
Tryon EdwardsAlways maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership. Votes: 0
Mary Augusta WardWith the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world. Votes: 0
Richard PeckThere is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonIt seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithA man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeI counted myself so plain, so poorly made, that no honest love could come to me. Votes: 0
Elizabeth ProctorFor me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough. Votes: 0
M. F. K. FisherWe often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others. Votes: 0
Bertolt BrechtOnly miracle is plain; it is in the ordinary that groans with the weight of glory. Votes: 0
Robert Farrar CaponEverything has been created twice once on a mental plain and once on a physical plain. Votes: 0
Bob ProctorA powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain. Votes: 0
Mark TwainTo speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire. Votes: 0
DemocritusIf you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. Votes: 0
Lois McMaster BujoldI shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind. Votes: 0
Julian JaynesI dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford. Votes: 0
Ethel WatersThe bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. Votes: 0
Kate ChopinI always play girls who are quite traumatised, or a plain girl, but I'm happy with that. Votes: 0
Joanne FroggattAlways prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisDepression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Votes: 0
Judith GuestI came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen. Votes: 0
Frances PerkinsA pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life. Votes: 0
Rick WarrenAs you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king's highway. Votes: 0
William GurnallI'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. Votes: 0
Jean-Paul SartreI am very aggressive and very physical. On the field, I guess I am just plain mean. Votes: 0
Jack LambertIt is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating. Votes: 0
Katharine HepburnPeople have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing. Votes: 0
Gilbert GottfriedHard work ain't so easy, strength training is just plain old hard work and it ain't easy. Votes: 0
Mike BerryGreatness is the reward for genius...only a few can be great, the rest are plain good. Votes: 0
Siddharth KatragaddaI don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeI am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeThe hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain. Votes: 0
William Ellery ChanningIt's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite. Votes: 0
Saul BellowSome have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeIt is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God. Votes: 0
John WycliffeThe real alternative to power of the rich is not power of the poor. It's just plain power. Votes: 0
P. J. O'RourkeThe older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story. Votes: 0
John ScottSome good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend. Votes: 0
MartialTis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareI think I'm plain. I'm normal. I'm plain. I try not to stand out. I don't wear colors. Votes: 0
Cathy MoriartyBe plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet. Votes: 0
Mary Wortley MontaguThe idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong. Votes: 0
Howard DeanThe meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. Votes: 0
Alan WattsThe plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head. Votes: 0
Louis-Ferdinand CelineI am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic. Votes: 0
James G. FrazerYoung people are growing in plain sight, there is no place for them to hide, no cocoon. It's hard Votes: 0
Rachel VailA friend cannot be owned That is plain to see Friendships must be shared, Just like our friend, Ruby Votes: 0
Stephen CosgroveOn the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game. Votes: 0
Bob DylanC++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around. Votes: 0
Dennis RitchieWhat part of no don't you understand. To put it plain and simple, I'm not into one night stands. Votes: 0
Lorrie MorganI like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages. Votes: 0
Jesse BallShe is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful. Votes: 0
Hilary MantelIf Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass." Votes: 0
Thomas MertonI bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes. Votes: 0
Thomas PaineOnly let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw. Votes: 0
Ludwig WittgensteinLike a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker. Votes: 0
Joseph ConradLike sweet morning dew I took one look at you And it was plain to see You were my destiny Votes: 0
Method ManI was just teasing," I say. "I myself don't like to eat plain butter, but hey, it's a free world. Votes: 0
Lauren MyracleThis mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it? Votes: 0
Spencer TracyWerewolves? Oh please, just plain stupid. Who wants to get it on with a man ruled by his inner dog? Votes: 0
Karen Marie MoningNo matter how much I try to be plain, people don't accept me, so I might as well be fabulous. Votes: 0
Austin ScarlettHome may be near, Home may be far - But it is anywhere love And a few plain household treasures are. Votes: 0
Grace Noll CrowellSire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit. Votes: 0
Victor HugoMy body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong; I fed it to keep it running. Votes: 0
Ann AguirreYellow M&M's don't move with green M&M's. I mean, you don't put M&M's peanuts with M&M's plain. Votes: 0
Tupac ShakurWhen a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. Votes: 0
Richard Steele