#plain

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#complaint #first #first love #kind #love

I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#balls #bowling #complaint #feel #gone

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#most #opportunity #otherwise #plain #scarcity

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. ↗

— Jane Austen

#almost #beauty #been #cradle #delight

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. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#democratic #faith #his #idealist #leadership

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#like #plain #rich #set #stone

He who avoids complaint invites happiness. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#complaint #happiness #invites #who

But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages. ↗

— Edmond About

#contained #france #gone #him #i

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#explained #need #nor #photograph #true

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about. ↗

— Adele

#direct #explaining #i #i can #interviews