Top Plain Quotes

Simple and plain things can touch your heart very easily! If you can be simple and plain, you can touch every heart!

Once we get to know where and why the skeletons of the past are buried, we can start wading across our muddled memories into the open plains of a new horizon. ("Going back to yesterday")

Plain Definition

(v. i.) To lament; to bewail; to complain.

(v. t.) To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss.

(superl.) Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even. See Plane.

(superl.) Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.

(superl.) Not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious; clear; unmistakable.

(superl.) Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple.

(superl.) Not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common.

(superl.) Free from affectation or disguise; candid; sincere; artless; honest; frank.

(superl.) Not luxurious; not highly seasoned; simple; as, plain food.

(superl.) Without beauty; not handsome; homely; as, a plain woman.

(superl.) Not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin.

(superl.) Not much varied by modulations; as, a plain tune.

(adv.) In a plain manner; plainly.

(a.) Level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as, the plain of Jordan; the American plains, or prairies.

(a.) A field of battle.

(v.) To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface.

(v.) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

Jemima was not pretty, the flatness and shortness of her face made her almost plain; yet most people looked twice at her expressive countenance, at the eyes which flamed or melted at every trifle, at...

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

I sit down by the river.Its incessant flow has polished the rocks carried from the top of the mountain. The aqueous caress, that has unrolled for millions of years the liquid ribbon from the summits t...

If you want to give a message to the world, let it be simple, as simple as the life of a shepherd!

That's No Ordinary Girl

To be a plain means to die for a mountain; to be a mountain means to die for a plain! Thus, to kill a mountain, make it plain; to kill a plain, make it mountain!

Life is plain. But never a pain.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.