best quotations about
Easiness |
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Quotations
 | A dying man can do nothing easy. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer (his last words) 27 likes |
 | Everything is hard before it is easy. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 17 likes |
 | All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 10 likes |
 | All in all he was fortunate: he lived without working, read without writing, taught without routine, drank without dizziness, and died before senility, almost without pain. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher (on Socrates) 9 likes |
 | Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 6 likes |
 | The path of least resistance is what makes rivers run crooked. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 5 likes |
 | Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. — Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American President [1901-1909] 4 likes |
 | When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 4 likes |
 | The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one. — Franklin P. Jones, 1908-1980, American columnist 4 likes |
 | Where the will is ready, the feet are light. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 4 likes |
 | I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. — Bill Gates, 1955-, American businessman 4 likes |
 | I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 3 likes |
 | What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 3 likes |
| We do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 3 likes |
| Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 3 likes |
| Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 3 likes |
 | Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 3 likes |
 | You will understand that if you make things easier for others you will earn their liking. — Aristotle Onassis, 1900-1975, Greek tycoon 3 likes |
 | If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere. — Frank A. Clark, 1911-1991, American cartoonist 3 likes |
 | Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy. — Robert Heinlein, 1907-1988, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. — Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer 1 likes |
 | When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich, it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman |
 | It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. |
 | What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? |
 | Nothing big —certainly nothing big in historical terms— comes easy. |
 | If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. |
 | Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | It is either easy or impossible. |
 | In this age, which believes that there is a short-cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way, in the long run, is the easiest. |
 | How easy life is when it’s easy, and how hard when it’s hard. |
 | Life can be very deep, but I'm trying to stay at the shallow end. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | Use absolutely no pressure. Just like an angel’s wing. |
Quotes in Verse
 | It is easy to work when the soul is at play. |
Ancient Greek
 | I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed … from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty. Eυ αν έχοι ... ει τοιούτον είη η σοφία ωστ᾽ εκ του πληρεστέρου εις το κενώτερον ρείν ημών… — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 10 likes |
 | He was easy here, will be easy there. Ο δ’ εύκολος μεν ενθάδ’ εύκολος δ’ εκεί. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Frogs (about the deceased Sophocles) 9 likes |
 | There is no royal road to geometry. Μη είναι βασιλικήν ατραπόν επί γεωμετρίαν. — Eucliid, 4th-3rd cent. BC, Greek mathematician, the “father of geometry” (his answer to the king of Egypt Ptolemy, who asked for a shorter way to learn Geometry) 5 likes |
Proverbs
 | Easy come, easy go. 4 likes |
 | Easy come, easy go. 4 likes |
