Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.
I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.
I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.
The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to, like, 'Little House on the Prairie' days or something.
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
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,.
Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.
I don't give up. That makes me incredibly resilient or maybe stupid or just plain stubborn. Whichever...
I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.
It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
