Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
~ Philip James Bailey

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.
~ Alford

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in --telephonic, technological and relational --to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.
~ Jean Baudrillard

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.
~ Tony Bennett

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
~ Nicholas Boileau

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.
~ George Earle Buckle

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
~ Warren Buffett

The most complex things are the simplest.
~ Agni Celeste

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
~ Winston Churchill

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
~ Winston Churchill

When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.
~ Luc De Clapiers

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
~ Robert Collier

Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.
~ Confucius

Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.
~ Charles Horton Cooley

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
~ James F. Cooper

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
~ EugFne Delacroix

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

I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.
~ Richard Deupree

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
~ Albert Einstein