What, ultimately, is Greece if it is not the people who live in this country? It's not the mountains and the plains.
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
If the pen is mightier than the sword, a sharpie must be plain deadly!
It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
They hurried when they could, and dozed when they had to, hiding in tangles of bloodtwig and heartsease at the edge of the road.
Every plain wall deserves a piece of work, so why not cover it with a smile?
Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you!
More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.
In terms of fashion, I love adding a fun scarf to whatever I'm wearing - it's a great way to dress up a plain outfit!
It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.
It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
