Logo
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the wor

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. – George Santayana, “The Irony of Liberalism”

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Simplicity
category

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. – Rene Descartes

Category:
Simplicity

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. – Charles Warner

Category:
Simplicity

Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Simplicity

Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. – Michael Harrington

Category:
Simplicity

Random Quotes

As a planning board commissioner, I have to review the applications for development throughout the city, and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing. – Vincent Frank

Category:
amazing

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself. – Mae West

Category:
Jewelry

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it? – Peter Lewis Allen

Category:
Medical

Ive learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. – Jack Welch

Category:
Success