The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

What is elegance? Soap and water!

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

I am from the planet of elegance.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Elegance is refusal.

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.

I learned how to deal with people with elegance from Patrick Swayze.

The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times' obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.

There is no such thing as a natural fit between form and content. Seamless elegance would be tantamount to erasure.

True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that's mesmerizingly timeless.

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

I like honesty and fair play.

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.